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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 2 months into an 8-month computation.
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:57:45 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qgd2i9$2drh$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qg91nb$rbm$1@blaine.gmane.org

On 2019-07-12, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2019 20:59, Alan Grimes wrote:
>> 'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues...
>> [...]
>> So basically all gentoo updates will have to be done at the end of this 
>> run, I'm not really sure when, sometime in the December-January timeframe.
>
> I guess you should have written your code in a way that can store 
> current state so that it can resume.

No kidding.  Isn't "how to use checkpoint files" lesson number zero
when you start working on long-running computational jobs?

--
Grant



      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-13 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-11 17:59 [gentoo-user] 2 months into an 8-month computation Alan Grimes
2019-07-12  4:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2019-07-12 15:57   ` Laurence Perkins
2019-07-13 16:57   ` Grant Edwards [this message]

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