RE: [Condor-users] counting licenses

["Andrea Olgiati" <Andrea.Olgiati@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Miron Livny wrote:

> The challenge with flexlm is that Condor can not guarantee 
> that a license that is available NOW, will be there when the 
> job scheduled by Condor will ask for it. How does your job 
> react when it fails to get a license?

It's a third-party tool, and it fortunately has a busy-waiting option
(ie you can tell it via a command line switch to spin until a licence
becomes available). Of course this means that Condor sees the machine as
busy, and large amounts of RAM get consumed needlessly.