log_stop: Stop the log thread.

In autometric: Background Resource Logging

Stop the log thread.

Description

Stop the background thread that periodically writes system usage metrics of the current R process to a log file.

Usage

log_stop()

Details

The background thread is detached, so is there no way to directly terminate it (other than terminating the main thread, i.e. restarting R). log_stop() merely signals to the thread using a static C variable protected by a mutex. It may take time for the thread to notice, depending on the value of seconds you supplied to log_start(). For this reason, you may see one or two lines in the log even after you call log_stop().

Value

NULL (invisibly). Called for its side effects.

Examples

  path <- tempfile()
  log_start(seconds = 0.5, path = path)
  Sys.sleep(2)
  log_stop()
  log_read(path)
  unlink(path)

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