Ways to kill a job

karthikgk0705 · Post by **karthikgk0705** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:42 am

Hi,

I would like to know the different ways to kill a job?

Thanks in advance.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:56 am

The fastest way to kill a job is to turn off the power to the server

The only officially sanctioned ways to stop a job are:

a) use the "stop" button in the director or from a DS/Basic call to a job you have started.

b) if (a) fails after a given period of time use the "cleanup resources" menu tab in the director to locate the process and terminate it.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:26 am

(a) in Arnd's post includes the -stop option of the dsjob command. Note, however, that jobs - particularly parallel jobs - can take literally minutes to respond to such a request; give them that grace time before attempting anything more. Be patient. Like a run request a stop request is asynchronous; it sends a signal to the job which responds to the signal when it can.

srinivenigalla · Post by **srinivenigalla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:33 am

Where you want to kill a job is important. Let us know where you want to kill and why you want to kill

karthikgk0705 · Post by **karthikgk0705** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:37 am

srinivenigalla wrote:Where you want to kill a job is important. Let us know where you want to kill and why you want to kill

Let's say that I have opened a Job and I have closed it, even after closing it sometimes i see that the Job is shown as still open with my ID. I which case I know we can give logout through director or Kill in UNIX, any other ideas to get this done are well appreciated.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:14 am

Ah... that's not 'killing', that would be 'unlocking' - which a search for in the forums would reveal a wealth of information on.