Maybe we could have a universal multiplier that is multiplied by each of the individual ones, then Richard could run with -with-timeout-multiplier=4
On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Richard Tran Mills <rtm at eecs.utk.edu> > wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I occasionally see messages like this from configure.py: > > Error running make on HDF5: Could not execute "cd > /home/rmills/proj/petsc-dev/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.6 && make clean && make > && make install": > Runaway process exceeded time limit of 2500s > But the only real problem is that I am building on a machine that is a slow > POS (and often is part of a O($100 million) supercomputer). 1) Is there a way > to increase this timeout on the command line?, and 2) if so, could we have > configure.py tell the user this option when it bails out due to this time > limit? > > We don't have a uniform timeout option since we have dozens of different > timeouts in the code. It is an argument > to executeShellCommand(). I think the best place to put an option might be in > package.py for a package install. > > Matt > > Thanks, > Richard > > -- > Richard Tran Mills, Ph.D. > Computational Earth Scientist | Joint Assistant Professor > Hydrogeochemical Dynamics Team | EECS and Earth & Planetary Sciences > Oak Ridge National Laboratory | University of Tennessee, Knoxville > E-mail: rmills at ornl.gov V: 865-241-3198 http://climate.ornl.gov/~rmills > > > > > -- > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments > is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments > lead. > -- Norbert Wiener
