[Pipet Devel] Could not contact the dl, it appears not to be started.

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Brad Chapman wrote:
> 
> 2. You go to start piper up again right after that. The dl is still
> running at this point, so the script doesn't start a new dl.

Hmmm.  But I do get a "shutting down dl..." message before I try to restart
Piper.

> Eventually the dl will run for long periods of time and won't time out
> so rapidly, and so we shouldn't see this error any more. For now it is
> just an artifact of development.

I understand.  Well, I'm not getting the message as much now that I am able to
get Pied running longer (I'm working on renaming a lot of things).

> > jeff at dexter:jeff> ps -aux | grep python
> > jeff     11279 18.6 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:03 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11282  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11283  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11284  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11285  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11291  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11292  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11293  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> > jeff     11294  0.0 10.3 10236 6528 pts/1    S    15:37   0:00 python
> > startdl.py
> 
> Man, why the heck do you have 9 copies of the dl running? Kill some of
> those, for pete's sake! :-).

Take a closer look at those processes.  You'll notice (1) they all started at
about the same time and (2) the only one that's really doing anything is
11279.  Think back to a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, and you'll
remember that I had this same "problem" with Loci's middle.  I get 9 processes
running on Linux, while you get one running on FreeBSD.

Thanks for the info.

Jeff
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J.W. Bizzaro                                           jeff at bioinformatics.org
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