Unprocessed Sources - Validation Aborted

b Brian

on February 6, 2013

We are upgrading to a Windows 2008 64 bit server, and when testing OpenCDISC on a large (17 million records, or 10G of data) study, I am getting various domains in the Unprocessed Sources area of the report with a Reason as "Validation Aborted". OpenCDISC appears to run and complete as usual and I am not seeing error messages pop up that would indicate a problem. This study runs fine on our old server as well as a laptop. Is there a way to trace the process so that I can tell what is going on?

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t Tim

on February 6, 2013

RE: Unprocessed Sources - Validation Aborted

Hi,

What this usually means is that you're running multi-threaded and there was an exception thrown while validating those particular datasets. Admittedly this behaviour isn't ideal, since you'd expect to get the exception dialog as you would when running single-threaded. I'll look into fixing this.

As far as tracking down the exception goes, you can enable logging in lib/properties/logback.xml. With the Validator not running, change the level in the following line to ERROR:

Then when you run the Validator, any exceptions that get thrown should be logged to the engine.log file in the root Validator directory. Once you've found out what the exception is, please let us know and we'll help you debug further.

Given that things worked fine in your other environments, there's a chance that the problem was the Validator running out of memory. If that ends up being the case, you'll want to increase the memory allowances as described in the Performance and Scalability Guide if possible.

Regards,
Tim