Am 28.08.2012 um 19:20 schrieb Julien Nicoulaud:

> Yes, exactly that.

So in total you have two issues:

- clean shutdown
- proper handling in case of a worker.sh crashes

I don't get the problem with the second case. The `qrsh -inherit ...` will 
return and that's all.

How is the task failure generated in your environment and what do you observe?

-- Reuti


> 2012/8/28 Reuti <[email protected]>
> Am 28.08.2012 um 11:48 schrieb Julien Nicoulaud:
> 
> > The FORBID_APPEROR parameter seems to be specific to applications returning 
> > 100.
> >
> > My concern was about a random slave process crashing in the middle of the 
> > run,
> 
> Your application is fault-tolerant in such a way, that the other processes 
> discover that one worker.sh crashes and compensate this failure?
> 
> -- Reuti
> 
> 
> > but I realize after some testing you really have to explicitely send a 
> > signal to the qrsh process to trigger task failure detection.
> >
> > Thanks for you help !
> >
> > 2012/8/28 William Hay <[email protected]>
> > On 27 August 2012 17:20, Julien Nicoulaud <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > > Thanks for your answer, I'll deal with the clean shutdown in my 
> > > application.
> > >
> > > However, do you know whether this task failure detection can be disabled ?
> > > It is acceptable for me to have one worker process crashing, but not if it
> > > kills the whole job as a side effect...
> >
> > For a similar but not identical problem we found setting
> > FORBID_APPERROR=true in qmaster_params prevented gratuitous jobkills
> > when a subtask of a job finished.
> >
> > William
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2012/8/26 Reuti <[email protected]>
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Am 26.08.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Julien Nicoulaud:
> > >>
> > >> > I'm working on setting up a tightly integrated parallel environment for
> > >> > my application using the "qrsh -inherit" method, but I can't find the 
> > >> > right
> > >> > way to terminate the qrsh sub-tasks. Whatever method I try, the parent 
> > >> > job
> > >> > always ends with "Unable to run job N"
> > >>
> > >> You will get this message only if you start it with `-sync y`. It won't 
> > >> be
> > >> in any logfile otherwise. But I don't face the issue, that the workers 
> > >> run
> > >> forever. They are killed by the exit of the complete job, although not 
> > >> in a
> > >> nice way but by a `kill`.
> > >>
> > >> Maybe you can set in `qconf -mconf`: "execd_params
> > >> ENABLE_ADDGRP_KILL=TRUE"
> > >>
> > >> ==
> > >>
> > >> The usual way to shut down slave tasks: use your own protocol which you
> > >> want to implement and tell your worker.sh this way: "Hey, kill yourself."
> > >>
> > >> ==
> > >>
> > >> In principle it's supported to handle signals and the sge_execd can tell
> > >> the sge_shepherd to signal its kids. For a "normal" binary you can 
> > >> implement
> > >> actions to handle it in a proper way. Using the tight integration by 
> > >> `qrsh
> > >> -inherit ...` there is the special situation, that also the 
> > >> "qrsh_starter"
> > >> will get the signal and it will just exit forcing the job to end.
> > >>
> > >> -- Reuti
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > message and the qmaster log contains:
> > >> >
> > >> > tightly integrated parallel task 159.1 task 1.vbox-centos6-3 failed -
> > >> > killing job
> > >> >
> > >> > Does anyone know the right way to handle this ?
> > >> >
> > >> > If this can help, I shared my test scripts here:
> > >> > https://gist.github.com/3479264
> > >> >       • test.sh: submits master.sh as a N slots parallel job
> > >> >       • master.sh:
> > >> >               • Launches N-1 worker.sh with "qrsh -inherit" in the
> > >> > background
> > >> >               • Works for a while
> > >> >               • Sends TERM to qrsh processes
> > >> >       • worker.sh: works until killed
> > >> > By the way, I'm using SGE 6.2u5.
> > >> >
> > >> > Any help on this is welcome!
> > >> >
> > >> > Regards,
> > >> > Julien
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