Re: [Toolserver-l] Maintenance notice: Tuesday, March 1

2011-03-01 Thread River Tarnell
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River Tarnell:
> On the morning (UTC) of March 1 we will install some new hardware at the 
> Toolserver.  Services will be affected as follows:
> 
>  Service | Expected impact
>  +
>  Databases: s3, s4, s6, s7   | User databases unavailable for
>  |  < 10 minutes.
>  user-store filesystem   | Unavailable for < 10 minutes.

This maintenance has been postponed until tomorrow due to the 
unexpectedly long time it took to rack the new hardware.

- river.
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Re: [Toolserver-l] Cronjob starting cronsub

2011-03-01 Thread Magnus Manske
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:49 AM, MZMcBride  wrote:
> Magnus Manske wrote:
>> I understand that, and I didn't say lfs was better (it has plenty of
>> its own quirks), or that SGE was a bad choice - it seems to run well
>> enough, all things considered. It's just that things like "SGE might
>> interpret comments in your scripts as commands and die" or "you can't
>> run qsub from within qsub" are types of behaviour that are unusual to
>> say the least, and the toolserver users are left to the mercy of these
>> issues (I'd call them bugs) without warning or documentation. (Yes,
>> there is a wiki pages that says it can interpret special comments in
>> your script. That's somewhat different from "it will reinterpret your
>> Perl script and fall over").
>
> Having learned some lessons today, you should write improved documentation
> on the wiki. :-)

I might, once I've recovered from said "learning" experience...

Magnus

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