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Re: [Condor-users] Unexpected length of time in 'Owner / Idle' state



On 06/10/2010 12:14 PM, Mark Whidby wrote:
Hi,

We have a couple of dual boot clusters (Windows XP/Scientific Linux)
which are
booted into Linux each night at 19:00 for the purpose of running Condor
jobs.
When these were initially set up they would spend about 10 minutes in
the 'Owner' state after booting into Linux before entering the
'Unclaimed' state.

However, they now consistently spend about 70 minutes (i.e. 1 hour longer)
in the 'Owner' state (with 'Idle' activity) before entering the
'Unclaimed' state.
*As far as I can tell*, this change in behaviour occurred when we moved to
British Summer Time (I'm writing from the UK) at the end of March.
Could this have caused the change somehow?
How can I revert to the previous behaviour?

Another suggestion is that there could be a locale issue between the Linux
boxes and the condor collector which is an Apple Mac - could this be
possible?

I've found a solution that works for us so thought I would post it here in
case anybody else is seeing the same problem. Setting CONSOLE_DEVICES
to blank appears to fix the problem without causing any adverse side-effects.
I'm not sure why this should be so but it is working for us with version 7.4.2
of Condor running on Scientific Linux 5.3 (a clone of RHEL 5.3).

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Mark Whidby
Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix)
Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team
IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences