Re: [Condor-devel] re-thinking definition of TotalRunningJobs

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Bradley wrote:
> It seems reasonable that TotalRunningJobs should be the total running 
> jobs ;-)
>
> I see that the negotiator depends on IdleJobs>0 (not TotalIdleJobs) in 
> the submitter ad to decide whether it is worth negotiating with a 
> submitter.  So we would just want to make sure that only jobs 
> requiring negotiation are counted in the IdleJobs counter.  Maybe 
> that's not connected to the counter for TotalIdleJobs, but you'd want 
> to make sure before changing it.
Should we change this so the schedd explicitly sets a boolean 
"WantNegotiation", so we have less problems conflating the issues?  I 
can imagine situations (graceful shutdown), where we have idle jobs, but 
don't want new matches.

-Greg