[evla-sw-discuss] obs2script

[Bryan Butler]

indeed.  also, if this occurs again in the future, it would be good if the 
operator would actually do a %ps, to get the command line information for all of 
those obs2script processes, as it was typed in (that will show all the switches, 
the file names, etc.).

	-bryan


On 11/27/06 11:21, Bruce Rowen wrote:
> If you type "history" on the command line it'll show the history of that 
> shell.
> 
> 
> 
> Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
>> The operators' gut feeling was that it was when obs2script was run 
>> from the command line. Unfortunately, I don't think we can determine 
>> which files were run. Are there any logs?
>>
>>
>> Bryan Butler wrote:
>>  
>>> wierd.  i guess there's no record of which files caused this?
>>>
>>> i wonder if it could happen when rich's interface invokes obs2script 
>>> to convert a file automatically.  rich, any thoughts?
>>>
>>> anyway, that's a strange one.
>>>
>>>     -bryan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/27/06 09:02, Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Yes actual running processes, found via top, not via ps. Eva had 
>>>> slowed to a crawl, so they looked at top to find out what was going 
>>>> on. They found the processes, killed them, and Eva came back to normal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bryan Butler wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> not in the normal case.  were these actually active processes 
>>>>> (i.e., when you say they "found" the sessions running, what does 
>>>>> that mean)?
>>>>>
>>>>> when run from the command line, obs2script should always just run 
>>>>> to completion.  if for some odd reason it got itself into an 
>>>>> infinite loop (i've never seen it happen or seen it reported, but 
>>>>> who knows...) and the operator left it to run in the terminal, then 
>>>>> multiple processes could exist.  that seems an odd situation though.
>>>>>
>>>>> might it be that the operator did a %ps -aux or some equivalent and 
>>>>> saw processes that weren't actually active (zombies)?
>>>>>
>>>>>     -bryan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/22/06 08:15, Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
>>>>>        
>>>>>> The operators found 7 obs2script sessions running on Eva last 
>>>>>> night and wondered if it is not exiting properly when they run it 
>>>>>> manually. Is there something special we need to do when it is run 
>>>>>> manually?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the help,
>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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