[ensembl-dev] running scripts over christmas

[Anne Parker]

Addendum - my reply assumes you are running a script from a single  
machine. If you run a script via a farm that submits hundreds of  
parallel jobs, then we may have to IP ban you because it eats up all  
the db connections :)

It's just a question of writing your scripts carefully to avoid this  
issue.

Cheers


Anne


On 22 Dec 2010, at 09:37, Will McLaren wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
> The database servers are not really my area; I have included the  
> ensembl dev list on this reply in case someone who knows better is  
> still around.
>
> I'm also on holiday now, as I think are many of the Ensembl team!
>
> Cheers and Merry Christmas
>
> Will
>
> On 22 December 2010 03:28, Andrea Edwards <edwardsa at cs.man.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
> Dear Will
>
> How are you? I hope you are well. I sent this email to Fiona  
> Cunningham and she is away for the Christmas break now so I was  
> hoping you might be able to help.
>
> I was wondering if I might be allowed to run a script against the  
> ensembl human variation database over the christmas weekend (e.g.  
> from Christmas even pm until Tues 28th). I imagine the load on the  
> ensembl servers will be low over this period and so I am hoping that  
> my request might be acceptable. I am always conscious of running  
> long scripts in case my IP address (and that of the whole  
> university!) is blocked.
>
> Kind regards (and Merry Christmas!)
> andrea
>
>
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Anne Parker
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