[Condor-users] vm1_State taking ~4 minutes to update

["Little, Colin E" <ColinLittle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After submitting a job to our pool (v 6.7.14) I asked it to give me a summary of which VMs on that machine were currently in use.  To my surprise I got differing answers depending on which VM was being queried.

 

condor_status -format "Name: %s\t" Name -format "vm1_State: %s\t" vm1_State -format "vm2_State: %s\t" vm2_State -format "vm3_State: %s\n" vm3_State

 

Name: vm1@app13       vm1_State: Claimed      vm2_State: Unclaimed    vm3_State: Unclaimed

Name: vm2@app13       vm1_State: Unclaimed    vm2_State: Unclaimed    vm3_State: Unclaimed

Name: vm3@app13       vm1_State: Unclaimed    vm2_State: Unclaimed    vm3_State: Unclaimed

 

After 4 minutes this fixed itself and I got the expected output

 

Name: vm1@app13       vm1_State: Claimed      vm2_State: Unclaimed    vm3_State: Unclaimed

Name: vm2@app13       vm1_State: Claimed      vm2_State: Unclaimed    vm3_State: Unclaimed

Name: vm3@app13       vm1_State: Claimed      vm2_State: Unclaimed    vm3_State: Unclaimed

 

Is this supposed to take this long?  I'd like to use vm_State to encourage jobs to distribute themselves breadthwise before going in deep on a single machine, but if these attributes only update every 4 minutes then jobs that come in close together are going to cause me lots of problems.

 

Thanks in advance for any help

-Colin Little

Fair Isaac Corp