On 19-Jan-2012 11:10 AM, Matt Arsenault wrote: > > I believe I found the problem. After the process is complete, the redirected > stderr file isn't necessarily written to disk resulting in truncated or > missing output in some cases before the client attempts to read it. fflush is > not sufficient for this. I haven't seen this happen from one of my systems > since I've tried this.
I don't understand. What is the problem, and what did you try? > > Also I found that there's a window of opportunity where if the client > quits/is killed/crashes a just completed task will be lost and start over. ... > The slot directory is wiped out immediately after a task completes, but the > state file is not written immediately. If you interrupt the client after this > there's no record that it completed and the task starts fresh again. This is probably not an issue; the window is about a microsecond. -- David _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
