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+#/bin/bash
+#
+#+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
+#|                                                                     |
+#| Script to run LSST baseline queries in MonetDB in hot mode.         |
+#|                                                                     |
+#| This script assumes the database exists and is loaded with the      |
+#| 2.0 TB csv files kindly provided by F. Jammes. Run the python       |
+#| iscript load_lsst_data.py to load the database.                     |
+#|                                                                     |
+#| The SQL file name tells corresponds to the query number, i.e.       |
+#| query = {q1, q2, ..., q13}                                          |
+#|                                                                     |
+#| The timing results are written to a log file with these variables   |
+#| in its name as well, including the node name.                       |
+#|                                                                     |
+#| Then use the baq_node_results.py script to plot the timings.        |
+#|                                                                     |
+#| Run it as                                                           |
+#| ./hotloop.queries.sh $dbname $dbversion $dbfarm $sqldir             |
+#|                                                                     |
+#|                                            Bart Scheers (CWI, 2016) |
+#+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+# We are in the "hot" loop script
+temp=hot
+
+dbname=$1
+dbversion=$2
+dbfarm=$3
+sqldir=$4
+
+if [ ! -d $sqldir ]; then
+    echo "Directory $sqldir does not exist."
+    exit 64
+fi
+sqlfiles=($sqldir/q*.sql)
+
+logdir=${sqldir}/log
+if [ ! -d $logdir ]; then
+    echo "Directory $logdir does not exist."
+    exit 64
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "################:"
+echo "# Running node  : $( hostname -a )"
+echo "# Using database: $dbname"
+echo "#        version: $dbversion"
+echo "#          which: $( which mserver5 )"
+echo "# Using dbfarm  : $dbfarm"
+echo "# SQL dir       : ${sqldir}"
+echo "# Log dir       : ${logdir}"
+echo "################:"
+
+# Needed for stripping the mclient milliseconds timing strings
+suffms="ms"
+
+# Here we iterate through the sqlfiles in the sqldir
+for ((i=0; i<${#sqlfiles[@]}; i++)); do
+    sqlfile=${sqlfiles[$i]}
+    echo "Working on sqlfile: ${sqlfile}"
+    # get the file name
+    IFS='/' read -r -a qf <<< "$sqlfile"
+    # strip to the .sql extension
+    IFS='.' read -ra q <<< "${qf[-1]}"
+    query=${q[0]}
+    qlog=${logdir}/${query}.${temp}.$( hostname -a ).${dbversion}.log
+    echo "Logging query times in: ${qlog}"
+
+    monetdb stop -a 
+    monetdbd stop $dbfarm
+    echo "Stopping monetdbd..."
+    running="$( pgrep -u${USER} -l | grep monetdbd )"
+    sp='/-\|'
+    #printf ' '
+    while [ -n "$running" ]; do
+        running="$( pgrep -u${USER} -l | grep monetdbd )"
+        #printf '\b%.1s' "$sp"
+        sp=${sp#?}${sp%???}
+        sleep 1
+    done
+    echo "monetdbd stopped"
+    echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
+    #echo "UNFORTUNATELY: 'echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' DOES NOT WORK"
+    # We forward output to /dev/null, since mother script might not close
+    # when we use 2>&1 | tee log
+    monetdbd start $dbfarm > /dev/null 2>&1
+    monetdb start $dbname
+    echo "monetdbd and monetdb started; $dbname running"
+    mclient -d$dbname -ftimer -ims < $sqlfile
+    echo "First query ran"
+    
+    START=1
+    END=10
+    echo "Running hot bulk associations ${END} times..."
+    
+    for (( c=$START; c<=$END; c++ ))
+    do
+        echo "${query}; run: $c"
+        res=($( mclient -d$dbname -ftimer -ims < $sqlfile))
+        echo "${res[@]}"
+        
+        # strip the ms
+        tms=${res[-1]%$suffms}
+    
+        echo "${tms} milliseconds"
+        
+        if [ $c -eq 1 ]; then
+            echo "${c};${tms}" > $qlog
+        else
+            echo "${c};${tms}" >> $qlog
+        fi
+    
+    done
+done
+
+echo "READY. Hot bulk associations ran ${END} times."