When using temp as destination, have option to not start a new plot until archiver completes

[michaelc95]

When configured without a destination the software leaves it in the temp directory it created it in. In my case this is 1 of 24x 10 SAS hard drives. Then the archiver comes along and transfers it to the remote system. While the archiver is trying to do its thing plotman says hey I got a free temp directory and starts up a new plot on that drive slamming the transfer rate of the archiver.
This slows things WAY down. Maybe an option could be added that just checks if a .plot file exists in the temp directory
consider it not ready.

[realdevnullius]

You could limit the amount of plots with the phase options, no?

    # Optional: Allows the overriding of some scheduling characteristics of the
    # tmp directories specified here.
    # This contains a map of tmp directory names to attributes. If a tmp directory
    # and attribute is not listed here, the default attribute setting from the main
    # configuration will be used
    #
    # Currently support override parameters:
    #     - tmpdir_stagger_phase_major (requires tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor)
    #     - tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor (requires tmpdir_stagger_phase_major)
    #     - tmpdir_stagger_phase_limit
    #     - tmpdir_max_jobs
    tmp_overrides:
            # In this example, /mnt/tmp/00 is larger and faster than the
            # other tmp dirs and it can hold more plots than the default,
            # allowing more simultaneous plots, so they are being started
            # earlier than the global setting above.
            #"/mnt/tmp/00":
            #        tmpdir_stagger_phase_major: 1
            #        tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor: 5
            #        tmpdir_max_jobs: 5
            # Here, /mnt/tmp/03 is smaller, so a different config might be
            # to space the phase stagger further apart and only allow 2 jobs
            # to run concurrently in it
            # QUESTION HOW TO PLAY WITH THESE PHASES?? :(
            #"/mnt/tmp/03":
            #        tmpdir_stagger_phase_major: 3
            #        tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor: 1
            #        tmpdir_max_jobs: 2