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Comment on XgridLite by Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:48:23 +0000

Thanks! That’s good news.

Comment on About by ed

ed — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:06:14 +0000

Hi Beat,

Ah, yes, I’m in the midst of switching my stuff over to git, so that URL will never again work. I’ll post a zip of the source—if you don’t see it by Monday, bug me again.

–Ed

Comment on About by Beat

Beat — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:50:15 +0000

Dear Ed,
I’m playing with a growing xgrid cluster in our lab and I really appreciate your tool xgridlite. Just out of curiosity I’d like to look at the source code, and even maybe compile it for Snow Leopard, as I have just upgraded
When I try this:
svn co http://code.edbaskerville.com/svn/xgridlite xgridlite
It says:
svn: Repository moved permanently to ‘http://edbaskerville.com/svn/xgridlite’; please relocate

Then I put this new address and it still doesn’t work. Could you please enlighten me, how to access it?
Thanks
Beat

Comment on XgridLite by ed

ed — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:41:01 +0000

Sorry about the delay on 64-bit. It should only take a recompile to fix, but I don’t want to accidentally break things by rushing it, and OS X development is low on my list of things to do right now.

Luckily, this is only a cosmetic problem: the prefpane being 32-bit has no effect whatsoever on the bitness of anything else in the chain, from Xgrid itself to any tasks Xgrid is executing. It just causes an annoying restart of System Preferences.

Comment on XgridLite by Matt

Matt — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:37:32 +0000

Hey man, keep up the good work!
I’ve got a quick question though:

Since XgridLite is a 32-bit preference pane (because you have to restart System Preferences to open it in 10.6), does that mean that the Xgrid service that it starts is also 32 bit? Or does it start a 64 bit Xgrid service?

Thanks! Keep up the good work! I’d love to see this 64 bit!

Comment on XgridLite by Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:57:08 +0000

This is a wonderful piece of software. Works on 10.6 as well, just make sure to restart System Preferences (otherwise you won’t see the PrefPane). Thanks!

Comment on XgridLite for Leopard by Donar

Donar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:02:54 +0000

Hi,

i’m just toying around with XGrid lite – a cosmetic issue is that the Snow Leopard Pref pane has to be restarted in 32 bit mode when entering XGridLite. Would you be so kind to compile a 64 bit version?

Comment on XgridLite for Leopard by ed

ed — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:18:29 +0000

Hi Piyush,

If jobs are showing up in Xgrid Admin, XgridLite is doing its part properly—all it does is activate Xgrid.

You can use the xgrid command-line tool to do things like get stderr, stdout from your jobs (maybe also in Xgrid Admin—it’s actually been a while since I’ve used Xgrid). If things are mysterious: I’d recommend running an incredibly simple job (like echo) to make sure the basic stuff is working, then start digging into your problem.

Also, in case you’re not aware: by default Xgrid jobs run sandboxed as the user “nobody,” so they won’t be able to write data anywhere on your hard drive.

–Ed

Comment on XgridLite for Leopard by Piyush

Piyush — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:52 +0000

hi, thanks for your great software.

One question: does it work on snow leopard?

I have had some issues getting the whole xgrid thing going, using my machine as both the controller and agent. I pretty much followed the tutorial here:
http://www.jambot.com/blog/index.php

However, while the jobs appeared in the job list (in xgrid admin), they didn’t seem to actually run properly (went straight to finished status without executing).

Any ideas?

Comment on Classical Revolution Ann Arbor kickoff on Cinco de Mayo by Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:18:38 +0000

Thanks Ed, A friend (or several, not sure) and I will definitely be there! I’ll watch the group as well!