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

[Johnny Billquist]

Simon can correct me if I understood things wrong, but this is my 
understanding:

Job X ran.
Job X submitted job Y for running tomorrow.
System crash
Job X ran again.
Job X submitted job Z for running tomorrow.
Job X finished

Job Y disappeared. Job Z exists as expected. Job X got two log files 
from the two runs. Job X would appear to have completed both times.

My guess is that job X was rerun because it didn't finish, but that is 
perhaps not a good enough explanation for the rerun.
There is no obvious explanation at all for job Y not being around.

The "best" explanation might just be that the quemanager work file was 
not updated at all, so job X would appear to not have run at all. Thus 
the run after the reboot again, and also the loss of job Y.

	Johnny

On 2013-04-18 01:45, AEF wrote:
> On Apr 17, 3:35 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
> Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2013-04-16, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> What was that queue entry number?
>>
>> I ran through the details in the other messages, however it's now in
>> the hands of HP who are doing some testing so I will now wait and see
>> what they have to say. Thanks anyway however.
>
> I read the other messages and was still confused. In one case you said
> the job yesterday when in fact there were two. It was confusing and I
> am partly curious as to exactly what happened.
>
> It seems to me that what happened was that your job ran, it submitted
> another job. Then the power outage. Then power back up. Then a job ran
> that wasn't the submitted one and some remarks about accounting
> entries that were not clearly matched to which jobs. I was hoping for
> a single time-line of events.
>
>>
>> I will report back here with what they found when they come back to me.
>
> OK. And I hope that report will clarify what the actual sequence of
> events were and clearly show what entry numbers did or did not match
> with whatever jobs ran or did not run.
>
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>> PS: Thanks to whoever in HP pointed the HP VMS support person to this
>> thread (assuming he didn't find it himself); it answered a number of his
>> questions.
>>
>> --
>> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
>> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world
>
> AEF
>