Re: [MTT devel] Handling "Interrupted system call" with MTT

2007-10-17 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Ethan Mallove wrote: Either or both of those would be fine (don't we have a timeout in DoCommand.pm already?). There is a timeout in DoCommand, but currently I keep reinvoking DoCommand on each "interrupted system call" so the timeout gets reset each time. This

Re: [MTT devel] Handling "Interrupted system call" with MTT

2007-10-17 Thread Ethan Mallove
On Wed, Oct/17/2007 07:45:53AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Ethan Mallove wrote: > > >>> The bail is that "make" will eventually succeed or fail > >>> with something other than "interrupted system call". Do > >>> we need another condition? > >> > >> I'm just worried that

[MTT devel] Handling "Interrupted system call" with MTT

2007-10-16 Thread Ethan Mallove
On certain NFS servers, I run into the error message "Interrupted system call" when executing long running commands such as "make all". One solution I've been able to use is to setup an NFS mount point solely for the cluster I'm using, but this is not always an option. The below link advises to