Re: [Condor-users] DAGs and Error msg "Too open files"

["R. Kent Wenger" <wenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Michael O'Donnell wrote:

> I am running a DAG in our pool (all machines including the central manager
> run on a Windows OS (XP, 7, R2) with about 200 available machines for this
> specific job and my DAG reports an error which changes its status from
> Running to Idle (that is to say the jobs are running fine but the
> condor_dag.exe produces an error).
>
> The error log file the DAG produces this:
> 12/09/11 06:22:48 Can't open "ExtSimVal_DAG.dag.dagman.out"
> dprintf() had a fatal error in pid 9684
> Can't open "ExtSimVal_DAG.dag.dagman.out"
> errno: 24 (Too many open files)

I'm not an expert on the Windows side of things, but one thing you *can* 
do is reduce the number of file descriptors DAGMan uses by having all of 
your node jobs use the same log file.  The easiest way to do this 
(assuming you're running a fairly recent DAGMan -- 7.5 or later should be 
good, I think) is to just not specify a log file in your submit files, and 
let DAGMan generate a default log for you.

(One note: we are working on changes to DAGMan that will limit the number 
of file descriptors it uses at any given time, no matter how many log 
files are used by the DAG node jobs.  But those changes are not ready 
yet...)

Kent Wenger
Condor Team