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Re: [Condor-users] Explaining the Claimed + Idle state



Ian,

Can you give an estimate of the number of shadows that are running at any given time on this box?

Depending on the system's memory configuration, processor speed, and non-condor load, the schedd can fall behind when spawning shadows, causing this type of thing to happen. Depending on the nature of your jobs, there are ways to push the schedd harder, but that is a whole separate topic.

There is also a registry setting that can affect the number of shadows your schedd can spawn based on Desktop Heap. The default value for Desktop Heap on windows is 512k. Brooklin Gore at Micron has found that 60 shadows consume about 256k of Desktop Heap. Therefore if you're trying to run much over 100 shadows, they'll instantly crash before they can do anything. The solution is to modify the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems\Windows

The third SharedSection value controls the desktop heap. You can try, say 1024, and see if things improve. You can read more about this problem here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q184802/

Colin