Re: [Condor-users] Windows wake-on-lan / "green" computing environments query

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:44 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Rob wrote:
> > [ A practical problem here: immediately after start-up, a PC is in
> > Owner state ]
> > [ and thus it takes a while before it becomes available for running
> > jobs.]
>
> You could get around this by using suspend-to-RAM or suspend-to-disk
> instead of actually shutting the machine down.

OK, I should have tested it before making this suggestion.

After trying it I've found that it doesn't actually work this way, at  
least not on my two-way SMP boxes.  When the machine un-suspends, it's  
in Owner status on BOTH slots.  A machine that has just booted is only  
in Owner status on Slot 1, so suspend-to-disk is actually worse than  
just shutting the machine down completely.

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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington