Re: [Condor-users] Condor preparation: monitor pool's idleness first. How?

[Ian Cottam <ian.cottam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No obvious suggestion, but a comment...

We run one of our pools just on people's desktops. During office hours I 
nearly always see about 40% available for Condor use; and, of course, 
out of hours that figure shoots up to 90%. Condor jobs that take 1 or 2 
hours typically get through during the day.

Not sure if this would apply to your pool, and you are right to want to 
measure it.

-Ian

Rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have plans to introduce and setup a condor pool in our
> university library. This requires writing some proposal,
> estimating eventual results etc. in order to convince the
> library IT management to go for this.
>
> It is very difficult to estimate how often and how long the
> different PCs in the library would be idle, so that condor
> can use them.
>
> Before going for the full condor stuff, I would like to first
> measure the idle times of a pool of PCs. With this data,
> it is then easier to make some kind of prediction how
> useful condor could be.
>
> All these PCs in the pool will be running Windows XP
> (or, maybe, Vista).
>
> Does somebody have a good suggestion how I could do
> this idleness measurement?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
>
>
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