Turn off machine activity induced preemption/suspension in your condor
configuration:
WANT_SUSPEND = FALSE
CONTINUE = TRUE
SUSPEND = FALSE
PREEMPT = FALSE
If you are doing any kind of large scale test (e.g. several 1000s or
100000s of jobs in the queue), then the latest development version
(6.9.5) is the best Condor version to use unless you want Condor to
perform poorly ;-) Although this is a development version, it is the
feature-frozen version that will become the beginning of the next stable
series near the end of this year, so it is a reasonable choice for
comparison.
If you are running more than 200 jobs at a time from a single condor
schedd, then you will need to configure MAX_JOBS_RUNNING to be higher
than the default of 200.
If you do use a version of Condor from before 6.9.5 (or if you use a
configuration file from before 6.9.5), then you will not see speeds of
job startup greater than 1 job per 2 seconds, because the default
configuration with prior versions of condor was JOB_START_DELAY = 2. In
6.9.5, the throttling of job startup rate has been moved to the file
transfer stage (MAX_CONCURRENT_UPLOADS and MAX_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS),
and I would expect the defaults to be sufficient for most purposes.
--Dan
Brad Goldsmith wrote:
Hi All,
I have a small cluster of nodes that I am using to do some comparative
testing between different distributed computing systems. Condor is one
of these that I am starting to do some testing with.
What I'd like to do, to make things as fair as possible, is to force
all of the systems to compute pretty much as quickly as they can. WIth
condor, I have noticed that jobs seem to sit idle for some time before
being computed. I am guessing this is because I've been constantly
interrogating clients to see what's going on and this has tripped its
suspension policies. When I go for lunch and come back the work is
done :-)
What is the best way to make a condor client grab whatever is
available and run at it at full steam?
Thanks,
Brad
---
Brad Goldsmith
School of Computing
University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
Office: Launceston Campus, Computing Building, V-177
Telephone: (03) 6324 3389 International: +61-3-6324 3389
Facsimile: (03) 6324 3368 International: +61-3-6324 3368
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