Thanks, Chris, It turns out it was a buffering issue where the stdout buffer wasn't being flushed regularly enough.
Neal Kruis 828 482-2088 Big Ladder Software 2549 Irving Street Denver, CO 80211 http://www.bigladdersoftware.com On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/08/14 01:58, Neal Kruis wrote: > > > I am using SLURM to dispatch jobs on a supercomputer. I have set > > the |--output=log.out| option to place the content from a job's stdout > > into a file (|log.out|). I'm finding that the file is updated every > > 30-60 minutes, making it difficult for me to check on the status of my > jobs. > > I have a suspicion that's related to your filesystem, not Slurm. > > Certainly we don't see any such issue using Slurm 2.6.x with GPFS and > Panasas filesystems. > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci >
