On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:01 AM, DaB. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > today I discovered (thanks to the mailing-list) that a few users have run > several bot-instances in parallel on willow. I'm sure that these people did it > by mistake, but it is annoying nevertheless and it is easy to fix: Use SGE. > > The problem is that I wrote several of eMails about "use SGE!" already and > somehow it did not work as good as it should (if you converted you stuff > already: thank you and you can stop to read here ;-)). I understand that we > all are busy with our lives and Wikipedia and that we all love to "do it > right…later", but as you know that resources of the toolserver are limited. So > I hereby declare the following new rule: > > All bots have to run by SGE. A bot is every program or script that makes > changes at a Wikimedia project. It does not matter if the bot runs > periodically or continuous. The only exclusions are a.) interactive bots, b.) > bots that can't run by SGE yet and c.) if you start a bot by hand for testing > (no screen, no cron, no while). > The rule will become active at Sunday, 10. February 2013. Exception b is > almost NEVER the case, if it runs on a shell it is VERY likely that it can run > by SGE.
Is TS-1479[1] a valid exception B for not using SGE for some specific scripts? [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1479 -Liangent > > Some time ago I wrote a simple SGE-how-to at [1]. Maybe you all can take a > look and correct things and make things more clear. In very most cases the > using of SGE IS easy. > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/SGE_for_beginners > > -- > Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885 > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
