Re: [Condor-users] Multiple processes and Win XP

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lance

In vanilla universe, multiple processes and rpcs are not a problem.

Do other programs run ok on your pool? Any clues left behind about why your program below exits, such as insightful stderr output or exit status?

Some wild guesses :

- maybe the program expects an environment variable that is not present?  If it works outside of Condor on the submit machine, try adding
   getenv = true
to your submit file.

- maybe some input file required by the program is not present?  recheck what you listed for transfer_input_files.  Maybe a required DLL file is missing?  Try a tool like ms depends which will tell you what DLL files are required for the .exe, and make certain any non-system DLL files are being transferred.

- try specifying in the requirements expression in the submit file that the job runs on the submit machine.   This will tell you if the problem is running on a different machine or just running in Condor.

- set USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP=TRUE on a machine and have condor run the job on  that machine to see if any errors/clues appear on the screen. 

hope the above ideas help,
Todd


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Todd Tannenbaum
Dept of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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-----Original Message-----

From:  Lance De Vine <l.devine@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subj:  [Condor-users] Multiple processes and Win XP
Date:  Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:20 pm
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To:  condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx

Hello,

I have an application that when run in batch mode initiates several 
processes, and uses remote procedure calls (RPCs) to communicate between 
them. When I try to run this application as a Condor job ( on Windows 
XP, vanilla universe ) the application starts but then exits almost 
immediately. Is it possible that this is because it initiates multiple 
processes and uses RPCs? If it is, is there some way I can still use 
this application with Condor on Windows?

I have read in the documentation that running an application that 
initiates multiple processes shouldn't be a problem, but I am running 
out of ideas. Is it possible that it is the RPCs that are causing the 
problem?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Lance De Vine.


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Lance De Vine (High Performance Computing)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Brisbane, Australia.
(61) (07) 3138 9264

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