Re: [HTCondor-users] Docker hang re-evaluation

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

Agree with everyone that when the execution point takes Docker offline because it is unhealthy, it would be awfully nice if it periodically retested to see if it recovered.  However, in this particular instance, my guess is on a heavily loaded EP (i.e. 250 cores, short jobs, ...) this is likely to result in continuous oscillating between healthy/sick/healthy/sick.  What do folks think of the idea that the EP serializes requests to the Docker daemon?  I.e., instead of bombarding it with 250 requests in a short period of time, it only has X number of requests in-flight at any point?  Or is the issues you've seen have more to do with an overloaded file system (i.e. the volume holding all the Docker images) rather than an overloaded Docker daemon, in which case serializing Docker requests would have less impact?

Oh, and answering Jose's question: Unfortunately, the timeout HTCSS uses for interacting with Docker is currently hard-coded at 120 seconds (2 minutes).  If we were to make this a configurable parameter, do you you feel it is reasonable to ever set this to be above 2 minutes?  I.e. have you observed Docker being so overloaded to the point where a timeout of more than 2 minutes would result in successful operation?

Thanks for your feedback/input!

regards,
Todd



On 11/16/2023 12:11 PM, Dudu Handelman wrote:

Hi All. 

Yes I have seen it. 

Most of the time it relates to storage issue. For example, job is running and user decide to remove the job. So condor will run docker stop/rm and docker trying to kill the process while the process try to close/write/open only when the systen call is  back the process will stop. So the timeout is reasonable. 

I think we need a periodic docker check that will bring the docker universe back to online. 

Thanks 

David 

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From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Jose Caballero <jcaballero.hep@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] Docker hang re-evaluation

 

Hi,

Has anybody else seen this behaviour? If so, how did you fix it?

Or, is there some classad for the timeout that can be adjusted?

Any comment is more than welcome.

Cheers,

Jose

El mar, 14 nov 2023 a las 15:28, Thomas Birkett - STFC UKRI via HTCondor-users (<htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>) escribiÃ:

Hi all,

 

Hope everyone is keeping well. I have an interesting issue/irregular situation that occurs with our workernodes. We currently run Docker containers on our workers with Condor 10.0.9. Some of our newer workernodes can run ~250 jobs per physical node and this can lead to a highly loaded system. Due to this, there are times that Docker can be slow to respond or give the impression of a hang, leading to the following ClassAds for the Startd:

 

DockerOfflineReason = Docker hung trying to rm an orphaned container

And sets ATTR_HAS_DOCKER = false

 

Looking at the source I see this behaviour defined: https://github.com/htcondor/htcondor/blob/main/src/condor_startd.V6/util.cpp#L244C34-L244C34

 

As the Docker hang is ofttimes recoverable, is there functionality in Condor to re-evaluate Dockerâs status without having to restart the Condor daemon or manually amending these ClassAds?

 

Many thanks,

 

Thomas Birkett

Senior Systems Administrator

Scientific Computing Department  

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot 
OX11 0QX

 

 

 

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