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Message 292 - Posted: 7 Oct 2012, 0:42:54 UTC

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I had a machine crash. When I restarted the VM it had a task that had an elapsed time of 30 minutes however progress was at 0.000%. That suggests it didn't resume from its checkpoint. Does the app even do checkpoints and resume from them?

Seeing as it wasn't moving after I tried a suspend/resume and waiting 10 minutes I decided to abort it. Link to task here
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Message 294 - Posted: 7 Oct 2012, 10:42:50 UTC
Checkpointing should work fine, I tried many various situations when computing somehow crashed and it worked. There might somehow corrupt some files or you had some kind of crash I couldn't simulate. If this has happned only once there should be no worry about it. Sometimes any problem can happened.
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Message 295 - Posted: 7 Oct 2012, 22:45:41 UTC - in response to Message 294.  

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Checkpoints are not frequent at start, take more than 10 minutes, so there's nothing to worry about, just leave the task running.
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