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

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On Apr 11, 1:35 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-04-11, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> wrote:

> > Simon Clubley wrote 2013-04-11 18:28:
> >> On 2013-04-11, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... 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.
>
> > But there was a reboot in between, not ?
>
> Sequence:
>
> NTP job (06:30) -> check_queues (08:20) -> power failure ->
>         check_queues run again (08:25).
>
> >> 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.
>
> > Higher/later or lower/earlier?
>
> > Does it match the entry number from *any* previous job ?
> > I don't know ho long you keep logs, of course... :-)
>
> I also have the log file from yesterday's run (10-Apr-2013 08:20).
>
> The entry number from yesterday's submit command matches the entry
> number in the accounting log for the second run today.

Which of the two submit commands from "yesterday"?

>
> So the queue manager has indeed run the job submitted yesterday twice
> to completion today.
>

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