Re: [Condor-users] Trying to run condor_glidein on the National Grid Service

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gideon Juve wrote:

> Jean-Alain,
>
> As far as this error is concerned:
>
>  
>
> > 10/15 22:19:07 ERROR: Can't allocate 5th virtual machine of type 0
> >       Requesting: Cpus: 1, Memory: 1, Swap: 10.00%, Disk: 10.00%
> >       Available:  Cpus: 6, Memory: 0, Swap: 60.00%, Disk: 60.00%
> > 10/15 22:19:07 ERROR "Ran out of system resources" at line 361 in file
> > ResMgr.C
> >    
>
> I think the problem is that -count 10 sets NUM_CPUS=10 in the glidein
> configuration, which causes the startd to try and create 10 vms on
> every node. That's probably why it runs out of resources. IMHO the
> -count and -vms arguments to condor_config are extremely confusing and
> can't do what you actually want them to do in most cases.

You are right.

Until this is fixed, I recommend running condor_glidein 10 times to 
submit 10 glideins, rather than trying to use -count.

--Dan