RE: [Condor-users] jobs wait in idle mode unecessarily

["Ron Viloria" <Ron.Viloria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I had something similar happen to me at one time. What I had to
do was to remove the "nice_user = True" line from the submit file and
things worked in a more expected way. Are you using the nice-user
option?

Ron 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dr Ian C. Smith
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 12:08 AM
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> Subject: [Condor-users] jobs wait in idle mode unecessarily
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I submit a Condor job it seems to wait in the idle state 
> and take ages to start despite a host being free for it to 
> run on. Using condor_q -analyze I get
> 
> 174.000:  Run analysis summary.  Of 2 machines,
>       1 are rejected by your job's requirements
>       0 reject your job because of their own requirements
>       0 match, but are serving users with a better priority 
> in the pool
>       1 match, but prefer another specific job despite its 
> worse user-priority
>       0 match, but will not currently preempt their existing job
>       0 are available to run your job
>         Last successful match: Mon Jun 21 10:54:27 2004
> 
> What does the "1 match, but prefer another specific job 
> despite its worse user-priority" mean ? Is there anyway around this ?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> -ian.
> 
> -----------------------------------
> Dr Ian C. Smith,
> e-Science team,
> University of Liverpool
> Computing Services Department
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