Practical Information

If you start running some optimizations, always first test it locally by launching an optimaster and one or more optiworker processes. Then use optirunner to run your job (it should automatically connect to the local optimaster).

If things are not working as they should, try to see if the optiworker is correctly connecting to the optimaster. To do this, run both the optimaster and the optiworker with the environment variable DEBUG_WORKER=1 (for example: DEBUG_WORKER=1 optimaster). You should see in the output generated by optimaster if the optiworker is connecting correctly.

If things are still not working, try looking at the debug output of the optiworker. Any problems caused by the dispatcher should be displayed here.