[Condor-users] VMware job: so many checkpoints kept on master! A bug?

[Rob <spamrefuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a VMware job running on my Condor pool.

This job has been swapped from one pool PC to the other
and meanwhile checkpoints have been made.

However, I thought that Condor's policy is to remove old checkpoints
as soon as a newer checkpoint has been created successfully; on the
other hand, if a checkpoint fails, its remains are deleted and condor
sticks to the old checkpoint. Is this right?

The problem on my condor pool is that I see a whole lot of different checkpoints
on my master (in the spool folder of the VMware job); see below. This list of
checkpoints seems to be growing as time goes on......

I wonder if this is a bug; and if so, is this a problem on the master,
the pool PCs, or both?

Thank you,
Rob.


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