[3dem] Help with 7z issue, likely also with DM/GMS software

[Daniel Dai]

Thanks a lot for everyone's input.

We did check Task Scheduler, not any suspicious task exists.

I'm more leaned to this logging issue of DM/GMS, since I did see similar issue on SerialEM in our system.

And at that time we changed the time to "fix" the issue.


I'm trying to clean the logging content to see how it works.

If it doesn't work for us, we'll try changing time to pass midnight (Our ITS thinks it could cause other problems).

Again thanks for the help.


Best regards,

Aguang @ UT Austin

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From: Guenter Resch <lists at nexperion.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 11:20:36 AM
To: Daniel Dai; 3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: [3dem] Help with 7z issue, likely also with DM/GMS software

Hi Daniel,

> We use Leginon to collect data, and once a while we encountered some problem with data transfer from K2 camera PC to our data storage.
> Every time, there are 7z.exe commands running in Task Manager.
> This problem always happens at midnight (12AM), most of the time, at Friday night.

This sounds like a problem that also exists in SerialEM and that is related to the rotation of Digital Micrograph logs. This is the solution that Craig Yoshioka posted in 2017:

"The midnight issue is caused by the DM log directory being too full. If you empty it the problem should go away.  I suspect DM is trying to rotate and compress the logs at midnight and if it takes too long and there is an ongoing exposure it breaks."

In SerialEM, there is even a WaitForMidnight command to cover this ...

Hope that helps,

        Guenter

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