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SDKill notes
Recover from stuck calculation
A. First, be sure it's not an auto-save event - autosave will often kick in at the completion of another command, making it seem as if the original command is hung. 1. Check Windows Task ManagerB. My experience the last couple of years is that there is one shot of recovery, so make sure Modeling is the active window. I usually click on Outlook then back to Modeling to be sure I see the switch in focus.a. There is a spike in processor activity at initiation of auto-save, before settling down to normal processor use. C. Hit the Pause Break key solidly, perhaps slightly longer than you would normally hit a key - but not so long that it would start sending multiple Pause Break commands. Don't use shift, ctrl, or alt. D. Wait, don't press Pause Break again. 1. Depending on how long it's been grinding/how hard it's thinking, it may take a minute or three to acknowledge the break.E. Last ditch effort is to try SDKilla. While waiting, check your latest save/auto-save time. It's easy to get sucked in to spending more time trying to recover than the amount of time it would take to just quit and restart. 1. Check and remember the process ID for your hung instance of Modeling.F. Enter 1. WaitG. Having accepted your fate of permanently hung Modeling, kill Modeling 1. In Windows Task Manager, right click on the hung instance of Modeling, and select End Process Tree. This will be sure all related processes are ended. If you just End Process only, other processes (commonly annotator.exe) will remain and set you up for higher likelihood of future crashes.H. It's small consolation, but luckily it goes faster the second time you have to rebuild your model.a. Alternately, type sdkill -9 #### where #### is the process ID for your hung instance of Modeling.i. -8 is like kick, -9 is kill 1. Evaluate your auto-save scheme if you feel you've lost too much. |
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Re: SDKill notes
My experience though is that if Annotation hangs, there is no Pause/Break and no SDKILL recovery - am I missing something here?
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Re: SDKill notes
Hitting the Esc after the Pause/Break helps. I have been in the above situation often enough.
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I just had a remarkable experience where I was able to interrupt an Annotation process. I didn't do pause/break, I did "sdkill -8" without the process ID - turns out this isn't necessary.
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