Thanks a lot AgitatedDove14 !

mmmmh I just restarted the experiment and it seems to work now. I am not sure why that happened. From this SO it could be related to size of the repo. Might be a good idea to clone with --depth 1 in the agents?
Or more generally, try to catch this error and retry a few times?

Hoo I found:
user@trains-agent-1: ps -ax 5199 ? Sl 29:25 python3 -m trains_agent --config-file ~/trains.conf daemon --queue default --log-level DEBUG --detached 6096 ? Sl 30:04 python3 -m trains_agent --config-file ~/trains.conf daemon --queue default --log-level DEBUG --detached

yes 🙂

Will the from clearml import Task raise an error if no clearml.conf exists? Or only when actual features requiring to define the server (such as Task.init ) will be called

Yes, it did spin two instances for the same task

Thanks for your inputs, I will try that! For completion, here is how I retrieve the parameters:
` from trains import Task

task = Task.init("test", "test")
parent_task = Task.get_task(task.parent)
task.get_logger().report_text(task.get_parameters())
artifact_name = task.get_parameter("General/artifact_name")
artifact = parent_task.artifacts[artifact_name].get() `

https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent.git@f019905720529acbd316bd39b67c5ab0c02fcd55 to be exact

the first problem I had, that didn’t gave useful infos, was that docker was not installed in the agent machine x)

the instances takes so much time to start, like 5 mins

meaning the RestAPI returns nothing, is that correct

Yes exactly, this is the response from the api server when I try to scroll down on the console to get more logs

This is no coincidence - Any data versioning tool you will find are somehow close to how git works (dvc, etc.) since they aim to solve a similar problem. In the end, datasets are just files.
Where clearml-data stands out imo is the straightfoward CLI combined with the Pythonic API that allows you to register/retrieve datasets very easily

Nevermind, i was able to make it work, but no idea how

Yes, it works now! Yay!

thanks for your help!

Hi TimelyPenguin76 , I guess it tries to spin them down a second time, hence the double print

That was also my feeling! But I though that spawning the trains-agent from a conda env would isolate me from cuda drivers on the system

I can probably have a python script that checks if there are any tasks running/pending, and if not, run docker-compose down to stop the clearml-server, then use boto3 to trigger the creating of a snapshot of the EBS, then wait until it is finished, then restarts the clearml-server, wdyt?

--- /data ---------- 48.4 GiB [##########] /elastic_7 1.8 GiB [ ] /shared 879.1 MiB [ ] /fileserver . 163.5 MiB [ ] /clearml_cache . 38.6 MiB [ ] /mongo 8.0 KiB [ ] /redis

BTW, is there any specific reason for not upgrading to clearml?

I just didn't have time so far 🙂

no, one worker (trains-agent-1) "forget from time to time" the current experiment he is running and picks another experiment on top of the one he is currently running

trains-agent-1: runs an experiment for a long time (>12h). Picks a new experiment on top of the long one running trains-agent-2: runs only one experiment at a time, normal trains-agent-3: runs only one experiment at a time, normalIn total: 4 experiments running for 3 agents

awesome! Unfortunately, calling artifact["foo"].get() gave me:
Could not retrieve a local copy of artifact foo, failed downloading file:///checkpoints/test_task/test_2.fgjeo3b9f5b44ca193a68011c62841bf/artifacts/foo/foo.json
It tries to get it from the local storage, but the json is stored in s3 (it does exists) and I did create both tasks specifying the correct output_uri (to s3)

Disclaimer: I didn't check this will reproduce the bug, but that's all the components that should reproduce it: a for loop creating figures and clearml logging them

from the ClearML UI

Thanks SuccessfulKoala55 😁

you mean to run it on the CI machine ?

yes

That should not happen, no? Maybe there is a bug that needs fixing on clearml-agent ?

It just to test that the logic being executed in if not Task.running_locally() is correct

and in the logs:
`
agent.worker_name = worker1
agent.force_git_ssh_protocol = false
agent.python_binary =
agent.package_manager.type = pip
agent.package_manager.pip_version = ==20.2.3
agent.package_manager.system_site_packages = true
agent.package_manager.force_upgrade = false
agent.package_manager.conda_channels.0 = pytorch
agent.package_manager.conda_channels.1 = conda-forge
agent.package_manager.conda_channels.2 = defaults
agent.package_manager.torch_nightly = false
agent.venvs_dir = /...

It failed as well

I’m not too fond of many user configurations, it’s confusing.

100% agree, nevertheless, how much is too many? Currently, there are only two settings in the user preferences category, so one more wouldn’t hurt?

however, clearml is open source, nothing stops you from adding the code and sending a PR

I’d be super happy to contribute yes! Nevertheless, I am not sure where to start: clearml-server repo? clearml-web repo?