Pascal (and others interested in the qrun problem),

I was happy when I was able to repeat the hang on my windows system. And
then it went away. A race condition that depends on the weather?

I have updated zmq/jcs addons with an improved qrun that logs more info.

ctrl+c can be very useful in working with zmq. It is best to use jconsole
in tracking down this problem. Jqt and JHS introduce unnecessary
complications.

Windows also complicates this as its support for ctrl+c has some problems
vs zmq and sockets.

In going over all the reports it seems that the problem is that one of the
early tasks started never finishes its first request. The problem seems to
be a race between starting the task and the first request to it.

The new versions should help track this down.

Please try the following and give back the results:

1. start jconsole
   load'~addons/net/jcs/qrun.ijs'
   qrun 99 99 1

Poll now has a timeout. If you see poll line repeated every 5 seconds, you
are likely hung waiting for something that isn't going to happen. The good
news is that your session should respond to ctrl+c within 5 seconds.

qrun now writes a logfile that might have some hints as to the problem.
After qrun has hung, and you have done ctrl+c, take a look at: fread
logfile_jcs_

Please pass the contents of that file to me as it might hlep track this
down.

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if it is a race between starting a task and sending it the 1st request, the
problem might 'go away' if we add a sleep between starting all the tasks
and starting any jobs. This is not a fix, but provides more info.

If you can get the hang repeatedly, please see if you the following avoids
the hang.

   2 qrun 99 99 2 NB. sleep 2 seconds before starting requests

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Has anyone seen this problem on Linux? Can we say it is possibly a window
only problem?
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