Re: [Condor-users] 6.8.6 -> 7.0.5 on Windows taking a long time to vacate jobs

[Greg Quinn <gquinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried setting USE_PROCD to False to see if that improves the 
situation?

Greg

Ian Chesal wrote:
> Bump. Anyone else see the slow down in job kill time when condor_procd
> is used in 7.0.5?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Chesal
> > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:58 PM
> > To: Ian Chesal; 'Condor-Users Mail List'
> > Subject: RE: 6.8.6 -> 7.0.5 on Windows taking a long time to
> > vacate jobs
> >
> > > I'm in the process of moving Windows machines from 6.8.6 to
> > > 7.0.5 and I was noting issues with thrashing and my startd
> > RANK policy
> > > on machines running 7.0.5. It appears that 7.0.5 takes a very long
> > > time to preempt running jobs when a higher startd RANK job comes
> > > along. I can switch in 6.8.6 for 7.0.5 and the same jobs
> > take only a
> > > minute to preempt but when I move to 7.0.5 the jobs take
> > > 10 minutes
> > > to preempt.
> > >
> > > In the time it takes to preempt jobs on 7.0.5-based machines the
> > > waiting jobs give up their claim.
> > >
> > > I tried increasing REQUEST_CLAIM_TIMEOUT from 900 to 1200
> > seconds but
> > > it didn't make a difference. It's not diserable for my preemption
> > > policy to push that number too much higher.
> > >
> > > Has something changed from 6.8.6 to 7.0.5 in the way Condor
> > is killing
> > > jobs when they're preempted? I'm wondering why this
> > operation takes so
> > > much longer in 7.0.5 than it did in 6.8.6. These are plain vanilla
> > > universe jobs. So no checkpointing.
> > >
> > > Actually, if I change REQUEST_CLAIM_TIMEOUT and do a
> > 'condor_reconfig
> > > -full -all' does it apply to newly spawned shadows or do I have to
> > > restart Condor completely on my schedulers for this to take effect?
> > Digging around a bit it could be related to:
> >
> > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.0/3_6Security.html#sec
> > :RunAsNobody
> >
> > I have:
> >
> > SLOT1_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr1
> > SLOT2_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr2
> > SLOT3_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr3
> > SLOT4_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr4
> > SLOT5_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr5
> > SLOT6_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr6
> > SLOT7_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr7
> > SLOT8_USER=ALTERA\cndrusr8
> >
> > But I set:
> >
> > DEDICATED_EXECUTE_ACCOUNT_REGEXP = cndrusr[0-9]+
> >
> > Should I have included the domain in that regexp?
> >
> > DEDICATED_EXECUTE_ACCOUNT_REGEXP = ALTERA\\cndrusr[0-9]+
> >
> > My machines are saying USE_PROCD is undefined (and it is in
> > my configs) but it's starting up so does that mean
> > condor_startd is using condor_procd to track and kill
> > processes on my Windows machines? Could this be my problem?
> > That procd is doing this work?
> >
> > - Ian
>
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