ericaltendorf
Can jobs not be resumed after rebooting?
I suspended some jobs because I had to make a change in the UEFI, and they showed up with status STP as expected. After a reboot plotman can't find those jobs anymore, is that a limitation of plotman or did something go wrong on my end?
Chia doesn't support that. That's a chia issue, not plotman.
On Sat, May 1, 2021, 11:05 locque @.***> wrote:
I suspended some jobs because I had to make a change in the UEFI, and they showed up with status STP as expected. After a reboot plotman can't find those jobs anymore, is that a limitation of plotman or did something go wrong on my end?
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As a bit more, suspend/stop is a general Linux feature. A common exercise of this is when people ctrl+z a foreground process to pause it then later fg to bring it back. I'm not sure what other details there are, but in a simple form anyways it just stops giving cpu time to the process. It makes no attempt to serialize the process to disk so it could be recovered after a reboot. I haven't actually done it, but hibernate is the closest idea I've got to being able to recover a plotting process after power off.
@ericaltendorf @altendky any interest in leaving this open as a far flung feature request? I feel like it is squarely in chia's corner and probably out of scope until they support it themselves and am inclined to close
Hey, I've been working on this issue independantly here: https://github.com/jwest75674/chia-suspend
Not sure that my approach fits into the plotman infrastructure, but maybe it can help show how I managed to acheive suspending the plotting process across system shutdowns?
