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

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:54:35PM -0800, Little, Colin E wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> 
> After 4 minutes this fixed itself and I got the expected output
> 
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> 
> Is this supposed to take this long? 

Yes. Remember, condor_status queries the collector for a snapshot of
all of the ads it has - but startds only send updated ads every 5 
minutes or so, or when they change states. The vm_* changes aren't
enough to cause the startd to send a new update for vm2, for example.

If you use condor_status -direct you would have gotten the correct
answer. You can also have your startds send more frequent updates to 
the collector.

-Erik