Re: [HTCondor-users] Windows Keyboard Idle Isn't Working on 8.3.6

["John (TJ) Knoeller" <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem might not be the keyboard daemon.  It could also be your HTCondor configuration.

if you run

   condor_config_val start suspend preempt

what does it say? 

The start and suspend expressions need to refer to the KeyboardIdle attribute in order for the keyboard daemon
to have any affect on whether jobs run or not.

-tj

On 7/27/2015 2:10 PM, Bud wrote:

At the moment there are 2 condor_kbdd.exe processes; one running as SYSTEM and another running as me. 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run is empty in my case.  However I did a search through the registry and Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run contains an entry for condor_kbdd. 

I tried starting condor_kbdd.exe from the command line and it exits immediately.  %ERRORLEVEL% is reported as 0, no error messages.

On 07/27/2015 02:54 PM, Ziliang Guo wrote:

The kbdd is supposed to start up as a process in the user's session.
Having it in the DAEMON_LIST doesn't do anything since those processes
are run in session 0 with all other services and cannot see input from
other sessions. The installer is supposed to inject a registry entry
that will start the kbdd on user login. If you're not seeing a user
kbdd process, check the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to see
if the kbdd value is in there. If it is there, see what happens if you
try running the kbdd manually, if it crashes or exits right away.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Bud <budric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I installed HTCondor 8.3.6 on a Windows 7 64 bit, desktop to run jobs using
msi package.  I selected "Run jobs when the keyboard has been idle for 15
minutes, and the CPU is idle." and "Restart the job on a different machine."
during installation, however neither one of these options does what it says.
Jobs are sent to that machine even though I have been using the keyboard and
the running jobs aren't paused/moved after I use the keyboard more and use
the CPU to compile code.

condor_config contains KBDD in DAEMON_LIST option, but no other options
regarding idle keyboard or cpu.  condor_kbdd.exe is running as SYSTEM user
and as me, and the logs for kbdd don't show any errors (just messages about
starting up and listening on port).

Anyone else experiene this?  Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can
troubleshoot this problem?

I was digging and 7.6 documentation has examples for configuring policy:
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v7.6/3_5Policy_Configuration.html#sec:Time_of_Day_Policy
However 8.3.* documentation doesn't have this (or I can't find it) and I
assume the msi choices along with default settings for KBDD should be enough
that I don't have to add "WANT_SUSPEND" and "WANT_VACATE" settings.  If not,
any help on minimum set of configurations I need would help.

Thanks.
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