Re: [Condor-users] reducing job start time

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I am wondering if there are ways to improving the job start time (the
> > time between submit and actual startup).
> > My plan is to use condor to run queue-processors, which are submitted by
> > a manager that makes sure we keep up with the queue. The manager also
> > runs in the cluster. 

One [hackey] way to do this is to set up your schedd as a dedicated 
scheduler, as per the manual, and submit your jobs to the "parallel" 
universe with a machine_count of 1.  After the initial claiming the 
dedicated scheduler holds on to claims for a configureable amount of 
time (by default, five minutes), so subsequent submits run very fast.

-Greg