Can't stop long-running tree calculation

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Hi all,

I can’t seem to kill a long-running tree calculation. If I close the tree window with “calculating tree…” in it, I can see the Jalview process is still at 100% CPU. Is there anyway do stop it without shutting down jalview?

Best,

Chris

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Hi Chris,

Unfortunately not - the calculation runs in a separate thread and is not currently designed to be interruptible or cancellable. Your choices are limited to wait for completion, or kill Jalview completely.

Mungo

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From: jalview-discuss-bounces@jalview.org jalview-discuss-bounces@jalview.org on behalf of Christian Cole (Staff) C.Cole@dundee.ac.uk
Sent: 30 January 2018 12:03:09
To: jalview-discuss@jalview.org
Subject: [Jalview-discuss] Can’t stop long-running tree calculation

Hi all,

I can’t seem to kill a long-running tree calculation. If I close the tree window with “calculating tree…” in it, I can see the Jalview process is still at 100% CPU. Is there anyway do stop it without shutting down jalview?

Best,

Chris

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Hi Mungo,

OK, that’s what I thought.

Thanks for the reply.

Chris

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Unfortunately not - the calculation runs in a separate thread and is not currently designed to be interruptible or cancellable. Your choices are limited to wait for completion, or kill Jalview completely.

I think we can add this as a feature request for a near future release - calculations shouldn’t continue if their parent window has gone away…

Thanks Chris for letting us know!
Jim.

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On 30/01/2018 12:49, Mungo Carstairs (Staff) wrote:

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