Kiki
There was a discussion regarding where to place checkpoint files. I originally intended them to reside within the corresponding output-NNNN directories, and this required setting the checkpoint directory to $parfile, same as the output directory. However, since then others made the point that they rather wanted all checkpoint files of a simulation in the same directory, because this enables Cactus to remove the checkpoint files of previous restarts -- this makes restarts less independent, but can save disk space. This requires setting the checkpoint directory to "../checkpoints".
I don't recall what changes were necessary in Simfactory to support this, but there may have been some.
However, Simfactory always expected all output directories to be set to $parfile, or to subdirectories of $parfile. It may be that things worked without doing so, but I never used or tested this myself.
-erik
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Kyriaki Dionysopoulou <kdionyso@aei.mpg.de
wrote:
Hi all,
I recently updated my simfactory and since then I'm not able to restart from a checkpoint if I don't specify the checkpoint output and recover directories explicitly in the parfile. Since before I updated I was able to do that without specifying the checkpoint output/recover directories I'm just wondering if there is an intentional change in simfactory's default behavior or if this is a bug that I should report on TRAC. I attach a simple test parfile that reproduces the problem and a basic thornlist.
The default location for the checkpoint output/recover directories should be output-XXXX.
Cheers,
Kiki
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