Hi everyone again,
after the summary yesterday, I received emails from
few other individuals showing concern that 'idled'
might not the best solution after all.
However, I did not get any scenario's that it might
cause problems. So far I have tried it `test machines`
and so far so far. Who knows when you set it on real
people machines, running all sort of programs.
1. Shouldn't use of "nohup <command> &" take care of
background processes that may otherwise been seen as
idle and get killed?
Here are some of the corcerns I received:
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You may find idled is not a good solution. It has not
been updated for
over four years...May 16, 1996. It is not reliable
and needs work.
Matter
of fact I would like to update the tool but time has
been a problem as
of yet.
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Just an FYI. We looked at idled, and it seemed
appropriate for certain
situations (when we evaluated it last year). Our
problem is that we
have
users who run large stats jobs - they may appear idle
for some time,
but
they have background processes running. Did any of
the solutions you
recieved take this situation into consideration?
cheers and thanks,
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Can anybody let us know if we are overlooking
something big by use of idled??
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Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 19:10:13 NZDT