[Info-vax] Are queue manager updates written to disk immediately ?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-04-11 18:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2013-04-11, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> I guess accounting (acc/queue=ba0) also shows both jobs as runed?
>
> There's no accounting entry for the first job even though there is
> a full logfile, but since accounting log updates are buffered, then
> that's not really a major surprise.
>
>> Nothing weird with the start/finish timestamps in accounting?
>>
>> I would look mare at something with the system clock at
>> startup that made the holding job to be released. Such
>> as a startup with wrong time setting or similar.
>>
>
> All the timestamps on the log files and accounting are correct; the only
> time the system clock is corrected on this system is once a day during
> during the night from a NTP source and that job had already run a couple
> of hours previously. There was nothing strange in this NTP update job
> log file either.
>
> In addition, the queue entry number from the accounting record for the
> second job didn't match the entry number from the submit command in
> the first job.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions however, I do appreciate them.

My first reaction would be that even though you have the log and so on, 
the job had not yet completed. However, the fact the the submitted job 
in the first run don't exist in the queue makes it more weird.

Maybe some corruption of the batch queue file?

	Johnny