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

["Dr Ian C. Smith" <i.c.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that - unfortunately it's a Windows 2K OS. I tried changing
FILESYSTEM_DOMAIN and UID_DOMAIN to $(FULL_HOSTNAME) but it doesn't
seem to have made any difference.

-ian.

--On 22 June 2004 09:06 -0500 Michael Remijan <remijan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think this is a very common newbie question but I've found very few
> answers addressing it.  I can tell you about my own experiences.
>
> First, by default if you're using non-windows operating system the condor
> installation assumes that all the computers in the pool share both a
> common file system and a common way to allow login to machines.  If your
> machines are not like this, I found it impossible to run jobs.  To "fix"
> the problem, look for FILESYSTEM_DOMAIN and UID_DOMAIN in both the
> condor.config file *and* the condor.config.local file.  Make sure the
> value is $(FULL_HOSTNAME).  Doing this tells condor that the computers do
> not share a file system or login accounts.
>
> At 05:07 AM 6/21/2004, you wrote:
> > 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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