Re: [HTCondor-users] drawbacks of NEGOTIATOR_INFORM_STARTD = False

[Pek Daniel <pekdaniel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!

2014-01-30 Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 01/30/2014 10:35 AM, Todd Tannenbaum wrote:
>>
>> On 1/30/2014 2:11 AM, Pek Daniel wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any drawback of setting NEGOTIATOR_INFORM_STARTD to False?
>>>
>>
>> One downside is if, for whatever reason, it takes the schedd a while to
>> get around to claiming a startd given to it by the negotiator.  E.g. maybe
>> the submit machine is very busy, or maybe the schedd is given a very large
>> number of machines to claim all at once, etc.  In this case, you run the
>> risk of the negotiator matching a startd to scheddA, and then matching it
>> again to scheddB in a subsequent negotiation cycle because the startd will
>> stay in Unclaimed state.  If NEGOTIATOR_INFORM_STARTD is True (the default),
>> the startd will go to Matched state and thus the negotiator will not give it
>> away again.
>
>
> Note that the first schedd to use the claim on the startd will "win", and
> the subsequent use of that same claim be rejected by the startd as invalid,
> forcing the second schedd to go to the negotiator to get new matches.
>
> -Greg
>
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