Re: [Condor-users] windows xp log off kills jobs

[bob@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello again,

Further testing seems to reveal that this behavior happens in the JAVA
universe, but NOT the VANILLA universe.

Any comments about this???

Thanks,
Leighton.


> Hi,
>
> I have condor 6.6.6 installed on the student computer labs at my
> university.
>
> The lan machines run windows XP and are part of a domain.
>
> Jobs run perfectly provided we don't have to share the machine with a
> student, because when a student logs off the machine, the condor jobs are
> killed.
>
> I have posted previously about an unexplained error 143 from the java vm.
> Well, I have managed to track this down to occur when either a computer is
> reset OR a user logs off.
>
> Now to my understanding, when a user logs off, my job SHOULD keep running
> in the background, but instead the job gets killed and according to
> condor, has completed successfully, so no longer resides in the queue.
>
> Here is my jobs log file:
>
> 000 (002.004.000) 11/09 13:31:36 Job submitted from host:
> <192.168.2.95:2284>
> ...
> 001 (002.004.000) 11/09 13:33:11 Job executing on host:
> <192.168.2.101:1214>
> ...
> 005 (002.004.000) 11/09 13:33:12 Job terminated.
> 	(1) Normal termination (return value 143)
> 		Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Run Remote Usage
> 		Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Run Local Usage
> 		Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Total Remote Usage
> 		Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Total Local Usage
> 	0  -  Run Bytes Sent By Job
> 	15646  -  Run Bytes Received By Job
> 	0  -  Total Bytes Sent By Job
> 	15646  -  Total Bytes Received By Job
> ...
>
>
> The condor daemons run as a system service, but the actual job runs as
> condor-reuse-vm1. Now I'm guessing that when you log off, windows kills
> all processes that are not a system servce, hence my job is killed.
>
> Is this correct operation? Is this a limitation in condor that users
> cannot be loggin in and out of the machine all the time? Or is this just
> some completly strange behaviour that should not be happening?
>
> Is it something to do with the permissions of the condor-reuse-vm1 user? I
> have tried it on two different setups, one on the uiversity lab machines,
> which are fairly restricted security wise, and one on a complete stand
> alone set of computers that has no security implications at all.
>
> Any help would be highly regarded.
>
> Thanks,
> Leighton.
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