From 296f0f81c7acc6ec58dd7cba635e24849234d28f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: PhilipDeegan <philip.deegan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:09:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] better timing directory creation (#914)

---
 pyphare/pyphare/simulator/monitoring.py | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 pyphare/pyphare/simulator/simulator.py  |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/monitoring.py b/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/monitoring.py
index fb2703e01..3d7abbf74 100644
--- a/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/monitoring.py
+++ b/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/monitoring.py
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
+#
+#
+#
+
+import os
 from pathlib import Path
 
+from pyphare.logger import getLogger
+
+logger = getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 def have_phlop():
     from importlib.util import find_spec
@@ -46,3 +55,11 @@ def monitoring_shutdown(cpplib):
 
     if _globals.stats_man:
         _globals.stats_man.kill().join()
+
+
+def timing_setup(cpplib):
+    if cpplib.mpi_rank() == 0:
+        try:
+            Path(".phare/timings").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            logger.error(f"Couldn't find timing dir from {os.getcwd() }")
diff --git a/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/simulator.py b/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/simulator.py
index 66e2f5ffe..5bebe5e30 100644
--- a/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/simulator.py
+++ b/pyphare/pyphare/simulator/simulator.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def make_cpp_simulator(dim, interp, nbrRefinedPart, hier):
     from pyphare.cpp import cpp_lib
 
     if SCOPE_TIMING:
-        Path(".phare/timings").mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+        mon.timing_setup(cpp_lib())
 
     make_sim = f"make_simulator_{dim}_{interp}_{nbrRefinedPart}"
     return getattr(cpp_lib(), make_sim)(hier)