Re: [Condor-users] Condor job submission delayed

[Ralf Reinhardt <ralf.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Saric wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am experimenting with a small Condor cluster (Condor 6.6.6, mostly on
> Windows-boxes unfortunately) as you can see from my various beginners
> mails popping up in the forum.
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> I have set up a bunch of Windows-machines (Win2k SP6 and WinXP Pro SP1)
> and a central Linux-Master-Server.
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> Submission of jobs works in principle (tested it with the
> hello-world-examples from http://www.liv.ac.uk/e-science/condor/hello.html
> but sometimes I observe a strange behaviour in that certain jobs need a
> very long time until they are beeing executed.
What do you mean by very long time?
300 second delays can occur if the new job started while condor was 
within a 20 seconds frame of the negotiation cycle. you can start the 
job by using condor_reschedule.
you can reduce the time by lowering the NEGOTIATOR_INTERVAL value, but 
the 20 seconds timeframe is fixed, so for a 60 second interval you have 
a 33% chance that your job must wait up to a minute.
 If you have to wait for 30 minutes, it would point to a more serious 
problem in the negotiation between master and clients.

Greetings

Ralf