Re: [Condor-users] how to setup condor to be opportunistic

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi there! Right now, I have a working condor setup here in our studio 
> consisting of 3 workstations and 4 render nodes. I have been using it to 
> render maya scene files and everything seems to be
> working ok. My problem so far is that condor is not detecting whether 
> someone is using the workstation or not. That is even if Im using my 
> workstation, condor still uses my machine to render scenes.

What version of Condor? What OS?

Two possibilities:

1) Have you configured the policy correctly? Look in the configuration file 
that ships and edit it to use the UWCS_* policies if they aren't being used.

2) Are you using a recent version of Linux with a USB mouse or keyboard? 
Then read this:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/kernel.patch.html

> Is this not the default configuration of condor? I've made only minor 
> changes to condor's configuration files so far since i thought this is the 
> default condor behavior.

The default depends on what options you selected during your installation.

-alain