On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:59:54 AM UTC-7, Brian Craft wrote: > > > > On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:08:09 PM UTC-7, Jeremy Heiler wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Brian Craft <craft...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Two questions, really. I'm running large batch jobs with an agent. The >>> jobs may fail in any number of unanticipated ways (due to user input), so I >>> do a try/catch in the agent, log any errors, and continue with the next job. >>> >>> First question: how to deal with OOM (the Xmx limit, not the OS out of >>> mem)? The try/catch doesn't appear to help, here. The agent dies, and all >>> subsequent jobs never run. Is there some way to prevent or recover from >>> this? >>> >> >> Once it has happened, I don't think there's much you can do to save the >> process. I'd suggest that you figure out where you're improperly managing >> memory by throwing a profiler at it. >> > > Profiling is not going to change user behavior: users can give us inputs > too large for their systems. If we can't recover from it, then we need to > predict the event and abort. Perhaps we could monitor heap usage in another > thread, and shut down the agent if it goes past some fraction. But there > doesn't appear to be any mechanism for shutting down an agent. Maybe the > agent action could stash the thread id in an atom, and a watcher thread > could shut it down somehow. >
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html Hm... from this doc it appears that maybe the thing to do is implement a "please stop" atom that the agent action would check periodically. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
