Re: [Condor-users] condor job idle

[Nathan Panike <nwp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:32:15PM -0500, Victor wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm very new at creating dags so sorry in advance as this might be a mistake on my part.
> I'm hoping someone can point me out on how to check why the node->job is always idle. 
> I created a very simple dag and started it via 
> condor_submit_dag mydag.dag
> 
> CONFIG dagman_config
> JOB fastq_file1 process.cmd dir fastq_file1
> SCRIPT POST fastq_file1 /opt/galaxy/dagme/ChtcRun/postjob.pl
> RETRY fastq_file1 10
> 
> I can see the dagman running, so something within the node is causing this would be my guess.
> 
> 266865.0   galaxy          5/10 17:14   0+00:00:24 R  0   7.3  condor_dagman -f -
> 266866.0    |-fastq_file1  5/10 17:14   0+00:00:00 I  0   0.0  chtcjobwrapper --t

What universe is 266866 running in? Unless it is a local universe or
scheduler, this behavior is expected.

>From this, I read that DAGman has been running for 24 seconds.  That
means that your job has been in the queue for about 12 seconds.  It is
quite likely that it has not yet been considered for a match.  I
counsel a certain amount of patience.

Nathan Panike