Re: [Condor-devel] Feedback: Quill stress testing

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Matt Hope wrote:

> On 10/18/05, Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > seconds. It's when we remove large numbers of jobs that the quill  
> > binary
> > really doesn't do well.
> >
> > If I submit 300 1000-job clusters and then condor_rm all 300  
> > clusters with
> > one command line the database grinds to a halt.
>
> On a side note I should point out the same thing* happens to many of
> my users when removing large numbers of jobs wihout quill (even if
> those jobs aren't even running and are on hold!)
>
> the condor_rm process in general seems seriously expensive
>
> Matt
>
> * takes ages - schedd stops responding, ends needing a net stop condor
> to sort it out

Does the condor_rm take a long time to complete, or does it take a  
long time for the jobs to leave the queue? Leaving the queue forces  
at least one disk sync per job.

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