Re: [Condor-users] IDLE jobs

["Hrant P. Hratchian" <hhratchi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I re-set WANT_VACATE, WANT_SUSPEND, and PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS do 
I need to restart Condor on the affected nodes?  Can condor_reconfig 
be used to make these new settings active, or do these settings 
belong to the group that does not work with condor_reconfig?

At 01:14 AM 5/4/2006, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Probably what happened was that Condor vacated the first job for some
> reason. I assume that the new job had a higher priority or was ranked
> higher by the scheduler.
> If you want to prevent that you should change the WANT_VACATE config
> value at your configuration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anton Kucherov
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hrant P.
> Hratchian
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:02 AM
> To: Condor User's
> Cc: Glen Ferguson
> Subject: [Condor-users] IDLE jobs
>
> We're experiencing something somewhat odd with Condor.  Presently,
> all of our nodes are for production only (i.e., none of the machines
> are used as workstations) and the START ClassAd on all machines is
> statically set to TRUE.  The machines all have 2 processors and we
> haven't tinkered with the virtual machine settings, so the number of
> VM's per node is 2.
>
> Here's the actual problem...Two jobs were sent to node-5.  The other
> nodes in our cluster became saturated with jobs and the Condor
> scheduler somehow sent another job to node-5.  When this happened the
> status of the first job started on node-5 became "I" and the new job
> had a status of "R".  As I understand things, once the scheduler
> started the two jobs on node-5 a third job should NOT have been
> allowed at all since there are only 2 virtual machines.  What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Hrant Hratchian
>
>
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Hrant P. Hratchian, Ph.D.
E. R. Davidson Fellow
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7102
812.856.0829
hhratchi@xxxxxxxxxxx


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