Re: [Condor-users] Scheduler : job staying idle when submited only once or twice

["Emily Watt" <ewhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/9/06, Fabrice Bouye <FabriceB@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

another issue we've encountered so far with condor 6.8.1 : when a job is only submitted once or twice, it seems it stays idle for a long time. However, if the very same job is submitted multiple times (three times or more), all instanced get dispatched quite quickly to execution nodes and all get executed OK.

Hi Fabrice,

Incidentally I am having the same problem on my pool; if I set the queue parameter in the submit file to be at least 10 the jobs are executed properly. After a bit of Google searching I found a possible reason for this happening--that with a single job it is automatically sent to the machine that submitted the job [ i.e. the local machine] which is having problems. Which is ironic because you would think the local machine to be able to execute jobs itself rather than the more complex transfer of files/executables to the nodes in the pool. I haven't yet figured out the solution but would like to hear a response.

What kind of jobs are you sending? Have you tried submitting a single job in the vanilla universe to see if it works?

Emily