Re: [Condor-users] Understanding condor_userprio output

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Santanu Das wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I was wondering if anyone can explain the "condor_userprio -usage" 
> output to me.

Hi Santanu, I'll try to help...

> The "Total Usage" for the individual group_members when added are a bit 
> (~10%?) below the totals for the principal _groups, 

Perhaps the total for the individual group members are below because 
condor_userprio defaults to only showing individual group members who 
have accumulated usage in the past 24 hrs (aka active users).  You can 
change that behavior by using the "-allusers" or the "-activefrom" 
command line flags.

> but the total 
> appears to be the sum of the group_members and principal_groups (i.e. 
> the total may count everything twice??) - is it the way it should be? 

Yes, that is how it currently works.

Having the totals count things more than once seems wrong... Perhaps it 
would be nice to change condor_userprio so it ignores principal group 
names altogether unless explicitly invoked with a "-groups" option ? 
Any strong opinions?


> This is what I've specified for the AccountingGroup:
>
>     ## The AccountingGroups 
>     GROUP_NAMES = group_alice, group_atlas, group_biomed, group_cms, group_euindia, group_lhcb, group_monitor, group_camgrid
>
>
> and later, I insert this in the submit script for the user(s) in a group:
>
>     +AccountingGroup = \"$group_name.$username\"
>
>
> Is there anything is missing or I'm doing wrong?

Typically one would not bother defining GROUP_NAMES unless one is also 
defining group quotas (e.g. GROUP_QUOTA_<groupname>), but there is not 
wrong per se with the above....

> Also, at the bottom, it says "Number of users: 60"  but shows only a 
> handful of them - what does that mean?

It means a simple bug was introduced back in July 2009. :(.  Thanks for 
spotting this.  I'll push a fix into the source code for future releases.

> looked in the man-page but didn't find my answers there. Hope someone 
> here can help me with some of these. thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Santanu

Hope the above helped,
regards,
Todd