tell pvserver not to quit after the client disconnects

ParaView Support
1

Is there a way to tell pvserver not to quit after the client disconnects/client stops for whatever reason?

Why I need such a feature?

There happens a situation where the client disconnects due to an error. As a result, pvserver also quits, which in turn terminates the batch job (on a cluster) that is running the pvserver. I have to wait for hours to get resources and now because of client-side error, I will have to wait for hours to get the resources from the cluster. If I can prevent terminating pvserver, I can open a client ParaView and connect the server-side and do other visualization with the resources I have.

2

--multi-clients should do the trick.

In any case, a more robust approach is to run a script (which will handle failure gracefully) instead of running pvserver.

3

No, --multi-clients does not work. I will try to run a script.

4

Right, with multi-client you would need another client to stay connected to it in order to keep it alive.

+1 for the script approach.