On Mar 21, 2017, at 7:02 PM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > It is highly recommended to use a local directory as temporary directory in > EasyBuild, see also > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/3375 .
also, I'd sometimes suppress/trigger failure modes by using /dev/shm instead, which also gives a speed boost. Explanation: /dev/shm will not suffer from parallel fs quirks, therefor several build issues go away, however fast execution might bring in the surface build/installation bugs, fi. for values higher than parallel=1 (I’m sure that there is at least one version of `install` which can be used in such unsafe ways under Makefiles) More broadly, I’ve found that all these build processes put together serve as a good measure of a system’s health. It is particularly entertaining to identify heisenbugs, which repeat themselves with a characteristic probability.. Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
