Its a single static binary (see www.bioconductor.org). Its running on a dual athlon (single threaded so a bit of a waste) and my laptop (2.2GhzP4M) which is the one that crashed when I killed both cdrom drives and had a runaway I couldnt kill.
However, I have found chpox (freshmeat) which looks good so far as I have some checkpoints saved off. In a few hours I will get back to it and see if I can restore it satisfactorily. Why do it on a laptop - end result is an over 200mbyte postscript file, and I only have a dialup at home, and I (was) hoping to get a look at it as soon as it finished, as the server is at work. And then I got interested in checkpointing and ... BillK On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:34, Mike Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 24 October 2003 06:16, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > one day into a background job scheduled to take 2.5 days, I hung a few > > processes and had to reboot, so losing everything. > > > > This particular job is not all that important as I am running a parallel > > job on another server, but it is very annoying. > > If this is one looong jobs, and not hundreds of little jobs like compiling, > have you considered a simple mosix cluster? > If you have another machine you can migrate the job over to it while you > reboot, then migrate it back. > > - -- > Mike Williams > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/mOP6InuLMrk7bIwRAhJoAJ4oexJMmhnJYvWu4QfmI4S8GtpS/gCfcTMd > UYgY97FWZjkP69xpmB4tt3s= > =fkwQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
