Test 5 - Periodic checkpoint

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Test 5 - Periodic checkpoint

Introduction

This test determines if automatic periodic checkpoint will work.

Test steps

Start the job with the option -c enabled,periodic,interval=1 and look in the checkpoint directory for checkpoint images to be generated about every minute.

> qsub -c enabled,periodic,interval=1 test.sh

999.xxx.yyy

Successful results

The checkpoint directory should contain multiple checkpoint images and the time on the files should be roughly a minute apart.