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In the real world, suites can have several thousand tasks. These tasks are not required all the time.
Having a server with an extremely large number of tasks can cause performance issues.
- The server writes to the checkpoint file periodically. This disk i/o can interfere with job scheduling , when dealing with an excessively large number of tasks.
- Clients like GUI(ecflow_ui), are also adversely affected by the memory requirements, and slow interactive experience
- Network traffic is heavily affected
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- Archives suite or family nodes *IF* they have child nodes(otherwise does nothing).
- Saves the suite/family nodes to disk, and then removes the in-memory child nodes from the definition.
- It improves time taken to checkpoint and reduces network bandwidth
- If archived node is re-queued or begun, the child nodes are automatically restored
- The nodes are saved to ECF_HOME/<host>.<port>.ECF_NAME.check, where '/' has been replaced with ':' in ECF_NAME
- Care must be taken if you have trigger reference to the archived nodes
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- ecflow_client --restore=/s1/f1 # restore family /s1/f1
- ecflow_client --restore=/s1 /s2 # restore suites /s1 and /s2
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Let us modify the suite definition file again. To avoid waiting this exercise will archive immediately.
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- Type in the changes, cp -r f5 lf1; cp -r f5 lf2; cp -r f5 lf3
- Replace the suite definition
- Run the suite, you should see nodes getting archived, then restored in ecflow_ui
- Experiment with archive and restore in ecflow_ui.
- Experiment with archive and restore from the command line.
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The Autoarchive(0) can take up to one minute to take effect. The server has a 1-minute resolution. |
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