From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] some #s
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Date: Wed,  4 Jun 2003 21:20:03 -0600
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, northern snowfall wrote:

> Ron, can you please elaborate on this? I'm not sure why a CPU should
> reboot and foggy on when you deem a job 'over'.

need to reboot: all jobs leave state on a machine in one form or another.

'over': user-defined

Which means: after a job is over, state can be left behind.

Depending on the context this can be "bad".

I had a long writeup here on things that can happen and what you need to
do but I'm going to leave it at 'sometimes you need to reboot after a job
is over' :-)

ron