[gentoo-user] Re: 2 months into an 8-month computation.
On 2019-07-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/07/2019 20:59, Alan Grimes wrote: >> 'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues... >> [...] >> So basically all gentoo updates will have to be done at the end of this >> run, I'm not really sure when, sometime in the December-January timeframe. > > I guess you should have written your code in a way that can store > current state so that it can resume. No kidding. Isn't "how to use checkpoint files" lesson number zero when you start working on long-running computational jobs? -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2 months into an 8-month computation.
On Fri, 2019-07-12 at 07:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/07/2019 20:59, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > 'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues...
> > [...]
> > So basically all gentoo updates will have to be done at the end of
> > this
> > run, I'm not really sure when, sometime in the December-January
> > timeframe.
>
> I guess you should have written your code in a way that can store
> current state so that it can resume. Failing that, you could have
> used a
> VM that can save ("suspend") the guest state so that you can resume
> later.
>
> Food for thought for the future, I guess :-)
>
>
If he wants to live dangerously he could try sys-process/criu...
Probably would want to spin up another instance of the computation and
test with that and make sure it works correctly first.
LMP
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[gentoo-user] Re: 2 months into an 8-month computation.
On 11/07/2019 20:59, Alan Grimes wrote:
'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues...
[...]
So basically all gentoo updates will have to be done at the end of this
run, I'm not really sure when, sometime in the December-January timeframe.
I guess you should have written your code in a way that can store
current state so that it can resume. Failing that, you could have used a
VM that can save ("suspend") the guest state so that you can resume later.
Food for thought for the future, I guess :-)
