[Condor-users] jobs changing from RUNNING to IDLE and then stays IDLE for ever

[Christos Filippidis <filippidis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi to all,

usually when there are jobs running for a lot of hours and there is a 
new job coming in , the first job is changing status to IDLE and when 
the "new" job finish, it returns to the RUNNING state.

But there are some jobs running a particular software (CMSSW) that after 
changing from running to IDLE they never change their status to RUN and 
they stay idle for ever.



i dont know if it will be a good idea to advise condor to dont stop 
running these jobs?
can you advice me how to do that?

there are both local and grid users who are running CMSSW, the problem 
is that the grid users are running as user nobody,
how can i treat them us a group ensuring that there jobs will not stop 
running and that they will have top priority.

thanks

christos

i have a cluster on centos 4.4 running condor 6.8.5.
i send you the condor_q analyze of the job

[root@ikaros4 root]# condor_q -analyze 10919.0


-- Submitter: ikaros4.inp.demokritos.gr : <10.1.1.10:32770> : 
ikaros4.inp.demokritos.gr
ID OWNER SUBMITTED RUN_TIME ST PRI SIZE CMD
---
10919.000: Run analysis summary. Of 56 machines,
56 are rejected by your job's requirements
0 reject your job because of their own requirements
0 match but are serving users with a better priority in the pool
0 match but reject the job for unknown reasons
0 match but will not currently preempt their existing job
0 are available to run your job
Last successful match: Wed Oct 24 17:16:17 2007
Last failed match: Thu Oct 25 16:12:48 2007
Reason for last match failure: no match found

WARNING: Be advised:
No resources matched request's constraints
Check the Requirements expression below:

Requirements = (OpSys == "LINUX" && Arch == "INTEL" && HasFileTransfer) 
&& (Disk >= DiskUsage) && ((Memory * 1024) >= ImageSize)


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