Erratic behavior in accessing subdirs on Windows

[karttikeya]

Consider Stack Overflow for getting support using TensorBoard - they have a larger community with better searchability:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tensorboard

For bug reports, please include the following:

• TensorBoard version (from pip package, also printed out when running tensorboard)
  1.10.0
• TensorFlow version if different from TensorBoard
  1.10.0
• OS Platform and version (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04)
  Windows 8
• Python version (e.g. 2.7, 3.5)
  3.5.5
• For browser-related issues:
  • Browser type and version (e.g. Chrome 64.0.3282.140)
    Chrome
  • Screenshot if it's a visual issue

Please describe the bug as clearly as possible, and if possible provide a minimal example (code, data, and/or command line) to reproduce the issue. Thanks!

• I've multiple 3 subdirs containing .events file under a parent directory sh at C:\.
• Launching, tensorboard in any way (from 'C:' or 'C:\sh') and pointing to sh parent dir (correctly) starts the tensorboard server at 6006 and in the console on the list of file names shows all the subdirs but never shows all three in the plots.
• Sometimes, it shows one of them or sometimes two (and I've seen all the possible combinations of pairs out of three on multiple restarts of the server) but never all of them.
• It works fine if I point it directly to a subdir, showing just one plot.

I've also tried switching to Firefox or downgrading to 0.x but no use. It'll be great if someone can help me out. A possible caveat might be that each of the three events file is pretty big ~90 MB.

[stephanwlee]

Hi @karttikeya, thank you for opening the issue.
I just tried to run TensorBoard on Windows with ~200MB large event files. Scalar charts did appear kind of slowly but nothing was too out of ordinary.

@nfelt can chime in but I don't think you should be pointing at directory like C:\. TensorBoard would be scanning through large amount of files looking for nested event files. Do you just have three subdirs in the folder, sh?

[nfelt]

@karttikeya Can you run tensorboard --inspect --logdir <your logdir> and paste the output here? Also, if possible, can you provide the three event files that reproduce this behavior?

[karttikeya]

Hi,
@nfelt @stephanwlee Thank you for the support. Here is the link to event files and below is the output for
tensorboard --inspect --logdir=C:\sh :