Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of WorkGeneration

Timestamp:

Apr 24, 2007, 1:28:04 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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WorkGeneration

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 to find the number of unsent jobs.
 An example of this is sched/sample_work_generator.C.
-You can easily modify this program to suit your appliation.
+You can easily modify this program to suit your application.
+
+=== make_work ===
+The daemon program
+{{{
+make_work -wu_name name [-wu_name name2 ... ] -cushion N
+}}}
+creates copies of the given workunits (cyclically) as needed to maintain a supply of at least N unsent results. This is useful for testing purposes.
+
+Note: if you run the file_deleter and/or db_purge, the master workunit or its input files may be deleted (which will cause make_work to fail). To avoid this, give the master workunit a name that contains 'nodelete' as a substring. This causes the file_deleter and db_purge to skip over it.
+
+It may be convenient to have a script that recreates the master workunit. For example:
+{{{
+cp test_workunits/12ja04aa `bin/dir_hier_path 12ja04aa`
+bin/create_work -appname setiathome -wu_name sah_nodelete -wu_template templates/setiathome_wu_0 -result_template templates/setiathome_result_0 12ja04aa
+}}}