Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Hi Paul,

> A system here has relatively little RAM. It can run six copies of las 
> with ease. With no sievers running it can equally easily run duplicate 
> and singleton removal. What it can not do is run both simultaneously.
> 
> Is it already possible to kill the local sievers (with -KILL perhaps, so 
> one can guarantee to get their attention) when it is time to evaluate 
> progress made, and to restart them afterwards if needed? At the moment I 
> have to do this by hand, usually after the server dies with a OOM error.

you can try kill -STOP on the sievers when the duplicate and singleton
removal starts (and kill -CONT afterwards).

Otherwise with kill -KILL the sievers will die, and after some timeout
the server will restart them.

Paul Z.