[Taskforest-discuss] Task Forest Daemon Problem

[Rosco R. <Ros...@sa...>]

We're currently running TF 1.26; but I've been noticing this problem since we first began experimenting back at around 1.10 or so.  Until recently, I was not convinced that it truly was a bug...thinking it probably something incorrect about our local configuration.

Here's the rub.  Things will be humming along nicely; our nightly processing will finish with everything OK.  Then for some application reason, we'll need to rerun a job.  In the olden days, I'd do this with the batch "./bin/rerun..." command.  Nowadays, I'm clicking the web client "Rerun" button.  All seems well as you issue the command.  Then after several minutes the job doesn't appear to finish when I think it should and I begin snooping around.  I then discover that the ./bin/taskforest process itself has terminated. 

Sometimes a single, isolated rerun command will cause this...but not very often.  Sometimes, I find it necessary to fire-off several rerun commands from a ksh...or lately, with the web client I'll click several jobs as quick as the web page can be rebuilt.  The more rerun commands I fire at the daemon in a short time, the greater the chance that it'll go down.

Generally, we have very little trouble with the daemon.  It performs reliably in all but this circumstance.

Rosco