Re: [Condor-users] Multiple processes and Win XP

[Lance De Vine <l.devine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Todd,

Thanks very much for your message. It has given me a few ideas that I 
will follow up on.

Kind regards,

Lance.


Todd Tannenbaum wrote:
> Hi Lance
>
> In vanilla universe, multiple processes and rpcs are not a problem.
>
> Do other programs run ok on your pool? Any clues left behind about why your program below exits, such as insightful stderr output or exit status?
>
> Some wild guesses :
>
> - maybe the program expects an environment variable that is not present?  If it works outside of Condor on the submit machine, try adding
>    getenv = true
> to your submit file.
>
> - maybe some input file required by the program is not present?  recheck what you listed for transfer_input_files.  Maybe a required DLL file is missing?  Try a tool like ms depends which will tell you what DLL files are required for the .exe, and make certain any non-system DLL files are being transferred.
>
> - try specifying in the requirements expression in the submit file that the job runs on the submit machine.   This will tell you if the problem is running on a different machine or just running in Condor.
>
> - set USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP=TRUE on a machine and have condor run the job on  that machine to see if any errors/clues appear on the screen. 
>
> hope the above ideas help,
> Todd
>
>
> ---
> Todd Tannenbaum
> Dept of Computer Sciences
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
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>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  Lance De Vine <l.devine@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subj:  [Condor-users] Multiple processes and Win XP
> Date:  Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:20 pm
> Size:  1K
> To:  condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an application that when run in batch mode initiates several 
> processes, and uses remote procedure calls (RPCs) to communicate between 
> them. When I try to run this application as a Condor job ( on Windows 
> XP, vanilla universe ) the application starts but then exits almost 
> immediately. Is it possible that this is because it initiates multiple 
> processes and uses RPCs? If it is, is there some way I can still use 
> this application with Condor on Windows?
>
> I have read in the documentation that running an application that 
> initiates multiple processes shouldn't be a problem, but I am running 
> out of ideas. Is it possible that it is the RPCs that are causing the 
> problem?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lance De Vine.
>
>
>   


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