do y'all know how to propogate canceled states fro...
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Andrew Nichol
05/22/2021, 3:02 AMdo y'all know how to propogate canceled states from the flow to task? it seems lik the task just keeps running when i cancel a flow... retrying the flow also doesnt work until i explicitly set the state of the active task to "cancelled" (even after having cancelled the flow)
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Kevin Kho
05/22/2021, 3:04 AM
Hey, is it a mapped task that keeps running?
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Andrew Nichol
05/22/2021, 3:13 AMnope
Andrew Nichol
05/22/2021, 3:13 AMi am using a localdaskexecutor tho
Andrew Nichol
05/22/2021, 3:15 AMthe task does run an infinite while loop tho
Andrew Nichol
05/22/2021, 3:15 AMwould that affect prefect's ability to cancel the task?
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Kevin Kho
05/23/2021, 2:05 PM
I’m not sure on this, I’ll get back to you tomorrow when I can ask the team
Kevin Kho
05/26/2021, 1:33 PM
Sorry for the delay, I think the general answer is it’s very hard to stop Python processes so we don’t have strong guarantees around stopping processing running on Dask.
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Andrew Nichol
05/28/2021, 6:54 PMokay that is basically what i suspected, thank you for following up on this!
Andrew Nichol
05/28/2021, 10:12 PMand there is no way to run tasks in parallel with a local (non-dask) executor, correct @Kevin Kho?
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Kevin Kho
05/28/2021, 10:12 PM
Yes