Re: [Condor-users] condor on windows

[John Wheez <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is true. I sometimes do work on my Windows computer as a condor job 
runs in the background on Windows. You do run the risk of having a job 
fail though if the students are doing tasks which are very RAM intensive 
or if they crash the computer....

some people report that if you use mapped drives, the drive mapping 
willbe lost to the condor user when the student logs in...i've not 
really noticed this on my system..so do a test first of course.

your students will also notice tha teh computer can be slow and slugish 
if the background task is demanding. If you have a dual cpu system you 
can try to send condor tasks to one cpu and leave the ther cpu available 
for the student tasks.

JW



Masao Fujinaga wrote:

> At the recent condor week, I heard people talking about running condor 
> jobs in the background in student labs running windows. They said that 
> as long as the jobs did not use a lot of memory, the interactive users 
> did not notice the presence of the condor jobs running. If this were 
> the case, it would be a great improvement to putting the jobs to sleep 
> whenever there was an interactive user. Has anybody documented this 
> minimal impact of condor jobs? We would use such a document as 
> argument to the people responsible of our labs to let us run condor 
> continuously.
>
> Masao
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