Luobin Yang wrote: > Hi, Nate, > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > > > Hi Luobin, > > > > Sorry for the delay in response. I would suggest moving this discussion > > to the galaxy-dev mailing list since it does not contain any private > > data. The wide audience on galaxy-dev may be able to come up with > > additional ideas than what we on the Galaxy Team come up with. > > > > Please see my responses inline below. > > > > Luobin Yang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Thanks for Martin Dahlo's excellent blog ( > > > http://mdahlo.blogspot.com/2011/06/galaxy-on-uppmax.html) on making > > SLURM > > > work with GALAXY, I am able to run galaxy jobs on a cluster, but I've got > > a > > > couple of issues: > > > > > > 1. Sometimes a job is in waiting state and it won't start to run until I > > > restart galaxy. > > > > When this happens, is the job stuck in Galaxy or in the queueing system > > (PBS, SGE, something else?)? > > > > When this happens, the job is stuck in Galaxy, it doesn't submit the job to > SLURM queueing system. > > > > In your config file (universe_wsgi.ini), is track_jobs_in_database = > > True or False? Are you using SQLite or another database? If you watch > > > > I am using PostgreSQL database system. > > track_jobs_in_database is False in my config file. Which option is better > when I have a queueing system?
I'd use 'True' for this, it allows you to run multiple Galaxy processes. > > the Galaxy log, are any exceptions or other errors logged when a job > > becomes stuck? > > > Galaxy log doesn't show any exception or errors. You'll probably have to add debugging statements to the JobQueue class in lib/galaxy/jobs/__init__.py, in this case. Presumably the "ready to run" check is returning JOB_WAIT. The heartbeat may also be helpful if the process is sticking, see enable_heartbeat = True in the config. --nate > > > > > 2. Sometimes a job is in running state even though it is already finished > > > and restarting galaxy can make the job's state change from running to > > > finished. > > > > Most likely, Galaxy is setting metadata on the job's outputs. You can > > probably speed up this process by setting: > > > > set_metadata_externally = True > > > > in the config file. > > > > Thanks, > > --nate > > > > > > > > I am wondering what's causing those issues and how they can be fixed. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Luobin > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
