[Condor-users] How to switch jobs from idle to run state ?

[Marquette Jean-Baptiste <marquett@xxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,

I am a newbie in condor I installed a few days ago on my MacPro Core 2 Duo. I want to manage jobs on that machine which is configured to manage, submit & execute. The jobs are based on the same shell script and I wish to have a job per processor running permanently. I use default configuration files customized to apply to my machine.

To test the system I submit 4 jobs in a row and I got this output from condor_q :

 ID      OWNER            SUBMITTED     RUN_TIME ST PRI SIZE CMD               

  37.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  38.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  39.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  40.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh

After a while 3 jobs are running :

 ID      OWNER            SUBMITTED     RUN_TIME ST PRI SIZE CMD               

  37.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:06:57 R  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  38.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:06:57 R  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  39.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:06:55 R  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  40.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh

Then the 3rd job returns to idle after 12 mn :

 ID      OWNER            SUBMITTED     RUN_TIME ST PRI SIZE CMD               

  37.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:17:35 R  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  38.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:17:35 R  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  39.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:12:46 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh       

  40.0   marquett       10/4  16:49   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  scampall.sh

I never saw the 4th job switching to running state.

So my question is : what are the parameters to change in the config files to have 4 jobs running in a row ? How to force the running state ? I dont' see in the documentation any evident parameter to tweak.

All my attempts to that purpose were unsuccessful.

I have more than 237,000 similar jobs to submit, so I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,

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Bien cordialement - Very truly yours - Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Jean-Baptiste Marquette

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

CNRS - UMR 7095

Université Pierre & Marie Curie

98bis Bd Arago

75014 Paris - France

Tel 33 (0)1 4432 8196

Fax 33 (0)1 4432 8001

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