Yeah interactive is the way to go if you don't want to fight over system resources or hog the login node, problem is sometimes it takes a long time for interactive session to even start.  <div><br></div><div>Glad it worked for you :-)<div>
<br></div><div>From</div><div>G.S.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goldbaum@ucolick.org">goldbaum@ucolick.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi Geoffrey,</div><div><br></div><div>I ended up starting an interactive job on a compute node.  The import still took about 10 minutes.  It finally did finish importing though.</div>
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<br></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Feb 22, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Geoffrey So wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">I would recommend if possible getting an interactive node to try yt on.  I've seen many users abuse the login node of Kraken, running multiple jobs, and sometimes it's multiple users at the same time that slows the node down.  Have you tried another login node of Kraken, since there's 11 to choose from.<div>

<br></div><div>If I do >top and see many jobs running I usually just switch,</div><div><br></div><div>ssh -Y krakenpf1 </div><div><br></div><div>you can do this all the way to krakenpf11<br><br></div><div>From</div><div>

G.S.</div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Britton Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brittonsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">brittonsmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Nathan,<br><br>That's on the high side a little, but, sadly, not the maximum I've ever waited.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br>Britton</font></span></div></div><div><div><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goldbaum@ucolick.org" target="_blank">goldbaum@ucolick.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="h5"><div>Hi Britton,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestion.  I've been waiting for more than 10 minutes now and it still hasn't finished the import - does that seem excessive?</div>


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<br></div></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div>On Feb 22, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Britton Smith wrote:</div><br></div></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div><div>Hi Nathan,<br><br>It's most likely not hanging, but working on the import.  The filesystem on Kraken can be incredibly slow at times.  If you're only waiting a minute or so, you will probably need to give it a bit longer.<br>



<br>Britton<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goldbaum@ucolick.org" target="_blank">goldbaum@ucolick.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



Hi all,<br>
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I'm trying to run yt on a login node on kraken.  All I'm doing is invoking python from the command line and importing yt.  However, python hangs on 'from yt.mods import *'.<br>
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The python interpreter also takes a very long time (~ a minute or so) to start from the command line.<br>
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This happens using both the yt/dev and yt/2.3 module.<br>
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Anyone have any ideas?<br>
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Nathan Goldbaum<br>
Graduate Student<br>
Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCSC<br>
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