[evla-sw-discuss] obs2script

[Pat Van Buskirk]

Unfortunately, we've closed the xterm window, so don't have history back 
to those commands.

We'll be happy to get the commands if this happens in the future.



Bryan Butler wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           
>>>   
> _______________________________________________
> evla-sw-discuss mailing list
> evla-sw-discuss at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu
> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/evla-sw-discuss
> 

-- 
Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with.  Ever 
since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he 
used most.

Robert Albert Bloch