Re: [HTCondor-users] jobs state switch from R to I in a cycle

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/2/2015 8:22 PM, Patricia Bittencourt wrote:
> Hello,
>
>        I'm using condor 7.8.5 in a Rocks 6 cluster. And, I changed
> condor configuration to give priority to "production" user jobs by
> setting Rank = (Owner == "production"). I also reset some other settings
> as the uid of the submitter didn' t look like it was being used during a
> job execution.
>
>        The issue now is the state of the jobs keep switching from R to
> I, over and over again. But most of the time they are I. All those jobs
> are merely a sleep for 2min and they never end as their state changes
> all the time.

From the ShadowLog, it appears that the job 19.0 started running on 
machine nc09 but was immediately kicked off (evicted).  Was job 19.0 a 
job with Owner == "production" ?  If it was not and yet there were user 
production jobs idle in the queue, it would make sense for HTCondor to 
preempt job 19.0 in favor of running a production job.  If 19.0 was a 
production job, then it would help if we could see the StartLog on the 
execute machine during this time frame to learn why HTCondor kicked off 
job 19.0.

regards,
Todd