Re: [Condor-users] Condor Quill Problem

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Santanu Das wrote:

> Thanks Steve and all, for the explanation. I don't think I really need to log 
> the startd info.
>
> At the moment, I'm running QUILL daemon on the Central Manager and the Submit 
> host, and DBMSD only on the Central Manager - is this correct (well, in my 
> case) way of running Quill? Even though I can run condor_q, I don't get any 
> answer back when I run condor_history with "-completedsince":

You should have the following settings defined then:

QUILL_USE_SQL_LOG = FALSE
SCHEDD.QUILL_USE_SQL_LOG = TRUE

Also note that you would only get an output on the condor_history
if you ran it from the submit node.

Steve Timm


>   [root@serv07 JobManager]# condor_history -completedsince '01/01/2011 
> 13:00'
>
>   -- Quill: quill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :<vserv03:5432>  : quill_vserv03
>     ID      OWNER            SUBMITTED     RUN_TIME ST   COMPLETED CMD
>   No historical jobs in the database match your query
>
>
>
> Does it mean Quill is not logging anything at all?
>
> Cheers,
> Santanu
>
> On 08/01/11 01:57, Steven Timm wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Santanu Das wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Erik and Wancheng, for pointing out the DBMSD bit - it's fixed now.
> > > > Two points:
> > > >
> > > > 1. You should only run the DBMSD on one machine. The manual says: "One 
> > > > machine should run the condor_dbmsd daemon. On this machine, add it to 
> > > > the DAEMON_LIST configuration variable. All Quill-enabled machines should 
> > > > also run the condor_quill daemon. The machine running the condor_dbmsd 
> > > > daemon can also run a condor_quill daemon."
> > >
> > > One question: What do you mean "Quill-enabled machines"? Does it mean all 
> > > the Execute nodes? If yes, what's the benefit running  QUILL on every 
> > > single node?
> >
> > The only reason you would run Quill on every single node is if you
> > are keeping track of all the startd information in quill.  The more
> > common configuration is only to run on the nodes that have a schedd.
> > If you are keeping track of all daemon info in quill then you
> > need a huge database machine, there are some presentations in
> > condor weeks of 2007 and 2008 that describe just how big.
> >
> > Steve Timm
> >
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Santanu

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