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

[Mark Whidby <mark.whidby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/10/2010 12:14 PM, 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?

I've found a solution that works for us so thought I would post it here in
case anybody else is seeing the same problem. Setting CONSOLE_DEVICES
to blank appears to fix the problem without causing any adverse side-effects.
I'm not sure why this should be so but it is working for us with version 7.4.2
of Condor running on Scientific Linux 5.3 (a clone of RHEL 5.3).

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Mark Whidby
Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix)
Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team
IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences