[Condor-users] Collector (multi-tier) or different machine

["Michael O'Donnell" <odonnellm@xxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have any insight as to how
one might configure a pool where the collector is located on a different
server than that of the central manager. I am asking because we have expanded
our pool and our server (2 CPUs--3GHs) is running at 80% CPU load. Any
jobs that we submit are taking as long as 10 hours before a match is found
and the jobs run. The only thing I can think of is that the loading on
the server is causing the problems, which has significantly increased after
doubling the size of our pool. 

Our pool includes all windows systems,
we have approximately 115 slots and we are using the strictest of security
settings (SSL, authentication, encryption, authorization, integrity). 

I have read the wiki (https://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=HowToConfigCollectors)
about using milti-tier collectors, but for our system I think all I need
to do is locate the collector on a different machine. I have set up the
local configuration files so the COLLECTOR daemon is running on the second
host, and the global config files specifies the host of the collector with
COLLECTOR_HOST. The manual has no information on doing this, and I am not
sure if the Collector daemon is required to run on the CM as well as the
second host. After I made these changes, I can no longer query the machines
in the pool.

Thank you for your suggestions,
Mike