RE: [Condor-users] Is VirtualMemory updated at intervals?

[Jeff Weber <weber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian.

Dynamic.

Monitor the LastHeardFrom attribute for this machine from the
	"condor_status -l"
command output and verify you are indeed receiving fresh machineAds. 
The time unit is seconds.

	Jeff

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:20, Ian Chesal wrote:
> I really want to believe you but this goes against my observations. My
> machines are constantly reporting the full amount of VM for the box
> regardless of what's running on them. And I'm running so very memory
> intensive apps. Not so much as a twitch in the amount of VM reported by
> the vm's on the box. Is it clipped for the Win32 version of condor?
> 
> - Ian
> 
> > virtual memory is dynamically updated by the startd.
> > 
> > 	Jeff
> > 	Condor Team
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:21, Ian Chesal wrote:
> > > I don't suppose someone from the Condor team could ring on this 
> > > question? I haven't heard from any one...
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > - Ian
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > > [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Chesal
> > > > Sent: December 22, 2004 4:20 PM
> > > > To: Condor-Users Mail List
> > > > Subject: [Condor-users] Is VirtualMemory updated at intervals?
> > > > 
> > > > Page 24 in section 2.5 of the 6.7.2 manual says that 
> > VirtualMemory 
> > > > is "The amount of currently available virtual memory" for 
> > a machine. 
> > > > I'm running non-Condor processes that are, according to 
> > my machine, 
> > > > eating up just about all of the virtual memory on the 
> > machine. But 
> > > > when I do:
> > > > 
> > > > condor_status -f "%d\n" virtualmemory <machine>
> > > > 
> > > > I'm seeing the same number (about 1 GB) reported despite the fact 
> > > > that the OS says there is not 1 GB of available virtual 
> > memory. This 
> > > > is 6.7.2 on Windows XP.
> > > > 
> > > > Is the VirtualMemory figure for a machine a static or 
> > dynamic value?
> > > > That entry in the manual led me to believe it was 
> > dynamically updated.

-- 
Jeff Weber
University of Wisconsin, Madison