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Support optional job timeout #770

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nathanweeks opened this issue Jul 18, 2024 · 0 comments
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Support optional job timeout #770

nathanweeks opened this issue Jul 18, 2024 · 0 comments

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To prevent runaway blast jobs from blocking a sequenceserver instance, it would be helpful to support an optional/configurable job timeout with descriptive error message in the event of a timeout.

As a stopgap, a user might hard-code a CPU time limit:

--- a/lib/sequenceserver/sys.rb
+++ b/lib/sequenceserver/sys.rb
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ module SequenceServer
       # Change to the specified directory.
       Dir.chdir(options[:dir]) if options[:dir] && Dir.exist?(options[:dir])
 
+      Process::setrlimit(:CPU, 300) # 5-minute timeout
+
       # Execute the shell command, redirect stdout and stderr to the
       # temporary files.
       exec(command, out: temp_files[:stdout].path.to_s, \

Though in the event of a timeout, the resulting error message is misleading at best ("BLAST query/options error: Invalid input format for BLAST Archive. Please refer to the BLAST+ user manual."), and a wall-time limit would be preferable---perhaps with the timeout module?

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