Re: [galaxy-dev] drmaa job status

2017-06-16 Thread Matthias Bernt
Dear Nate and Curtis, I read a bit in the documentation of the python and underlying C library.. and played a bit around. I can't speak for GridEngine's specific behavior because I haven't used it in a long time, but it's not surprising that jobs "disappear" as soon as they've exited. Unfort

Re: [galaxy-dev] drmaa job status

2017-06-15 Thread Hendrickson, Curtis (Campus)
Matthias, We have had this problem on our SGE based installation for years. We referred to it as the "green screen of death" - as it would allow a biologist to continue analysis using output that was partial, at best, often resulting in seemingly successful completion of the entire analysis, b

Re: [galaxy-dev] drmaa job status

2017-06-15 Thread Nate Coraor
Hi Matthias, I can't speak for GridEngine's specific behavior because I haven't used it in a long time, but it's not surprising that jobs "disappear" as soon as they've exited. Unfortunately, Galaxy uses periodic polling rather than waiting on completion. We'd need to create a thread-per-submitted