[Condor-users] IDLE job

[marco Netscape <marcofuics@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi *
I'm using condor (the latest version) on a linux cluster.
When I submit a job to Condor i can see that the Job remains in the IDLE 
status for several minutes ..... ( too many minutes )

condor_q
ID      OWNER            SUBMITTED     RUN_TIME     ST     PRI     SIZE 
   CMD
 61.0   eo003                   6/28 10:41           0+00:00:28         
I      0           0.5      bash -c date +%s;

But all the nodes of the cluster are free of heavy processes: in fact  ( 
Here follows only a piece of the report )
condor_status
Name          OpSys       Arch   State      Activity   LoadAv Mem   
ActvtyTime

vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+00:00:03
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:16
vm3@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:12
vm4@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:22
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:08
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:05
vm3@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:19
vm4@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:16
.......
.......
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:19
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:16
vm3@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:12
vm4@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   503  
0+03:35:08



I have done the standard installation and set-up for the whole cluster.





Can I speed Up these jobs tuning a set of parameters?
Why a job remain in the IDLE state?