Re: [Condor-users] Unexpected length of time in 'Owner / Idle' state

["Burnett, Ben" <ben.burnett@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mark:

Are these machines being used exclusively for Condor use?  If so, you could simply set the START expression to TRUE, and skip the Owner state entirely.

-B

On 2010-06-10, at 5:14 AM, Mark Whidby wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have a couple of dual boot clusters (Windows XP/Scientific Linux) which are
> booted into Linux each night at 19:00 for the purpose of running Condor jobs.
> When these were initially set up they would spend about 10 minutes in
> the 'Owner' state after booting into Linux before entering the 'Unclaimed' state.
> 
> However, they now consistently spend about 70 minutes (i.e. 1 hour longer)
> in the 'Owner' state (with 'Idle' activity) before entering the 'Unclaimed' state.
> *As far as I can tell*, this change in behaviour occurred when we moved to
> British Summer Time (I'm writing from the UK) at the end of March.
> Could this have caused the change somehow?
> How can I revert to the previous behaviour?
> 
> Another suggestion is that there could be a locale issue between the Linux
> boxes and the condor collector which is an Apple Mac - could this be possible?
> 
> Grateful for any suggestions.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Whidby
> Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix)
> Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team
> IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
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