<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Killing a job yourself should not increase the failure count for a contig.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Carson</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Kipp Johnson <<a href="mailto:kippjohnson@uchicago.edu">kippjohnson@uchicago.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, 21 August, 2012 5:25 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Carson Holt <<a href="mailto:carsonhh@gmail.com">carsonhh@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Kipp Johnson <<a href="mailto:kippjohnson@uchicago.edu">kippjohnson@uchicago.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:maker-devel@yandell-lab.org">maker-devel@yandell-lab.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: Maker Re-tries<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Hi Carson,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Simple question: If I start maker and then kill the job before a thread finishes processing a contig, does this failure to complete the contig count in the number of tries maker will try to complete the contig before skipping to another?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Basically, does the "tries=2 #number of times to try a contig if there is a failure for some reason" parameter take into account failures resulting from me killing the job?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Best,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Kipp Johnson</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:kippjohnson@uchicago.edu">kippjohnson@uchicago.edu</a></div></div><br></div></div></span></body></html>