If you run with --useThreads=0 - I think the timeouts get ignored. satish
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote: > I like the timeout multiplier idea. > > Perhaps we could also have a command line option to specify how expensive the > computer is. Then the usual timeouts can be used if it is a $500 laptop, but > if it is part of supercomputer costing millions of dollars, then BuildSystem > will know that builds will be super slow and can multiply everything by a > large factor. =) > > --Richard > > On 3/13/13 3:11 PM, Barry Smith wrote: > > 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 > > >
