Re: [Condor-users] time spend in the queue

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Frédéric Bastien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to know each job spend how many time in the queue. I do it this way:
>
> condor_history -format "%s " QDate -format "%s \n" JobStartDate
>
> Then I parse it and substract the first number from the second
> one(JobStartDate-QDate).
>
> This give me from time to time negative time... Is this the good way
> to know the time speed in the queue?
>
> I know this only give me the time spent for jobs that have been
> started and don't take into account jobs that are started multiple
> time.
>
> thanks
>
> Frédéric Bastien

It is somewhat strange that the number would be negative. The QDate is 
set when the job is submitted and the JobStartDate is set when the first 
condor_shadow is started for your job.

What kind of negative numbers are you seeing, -1 or -1000?

Best,


matt