Re: [HTCondor-users] two jobs, but only one scratch dir created

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/5/2013 3:24 AM, Karin Lagesen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to get some jobs going under condor. The scripts are all the
> same, except input/output. When I condor_submit one script, everything
> works nicely. However, when I submit more, I get no results back.

Could you post the submit files you are using with condor_submit ?

Perhaps you are telling HTCondor to write the output to the same file, 
and so when you run more than one job the files are clobbering each 
other?  For instance, submitting to files like this would be bad:

   output = foo
   executable = myprogram.exe
   queue

Instead, you want something like

   output = foo.$(Cluster).$(Process)
   executable = myprogram.exe
   queue


> I now
> submittet two jobs at the same time, and I noticed that in my scratch
> directory, inside the execute directory, only one temp directory is
> created. This directory contains the files that it should for the first
> job.

How many machines are in your pool?  Perhaps your two jobs are running 
on two different execute machines instead of on two different slots on 
the same machine?

On your execute node, there should be a one-to-one correspondence 
between the number of slots that in claimed/busy and the number of 
sub-directories in the condor execute directory.  Are you saying you 
observe a single execute machine with two claimed/busy slots and yet 
only one scratch directory (format execute\dir_<pid of starter>)? That 
would be very very strange...

Hope the above helps
Todd