Re: [HTCondor-users] [PATCH] Speeding up condor_dagman submission

[Brian Candler <b.candler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/08/2015 19:10, R. Kent Wenger wrote:
> Anyhow, we're investigating whether we can reduce (or entirely remove) 
> the 12-second sleep without running into problems.
Thank you Kent, that's great to know.

There seems to be legacy magic in there, or hooks to support systems 
which were planned but never implemented. For example: createProcessId 
has a loop which waits for the value from generateControlTime to 
stabilise. However both the Linux and non-Linux versions of 
generateControlTime do nothing except set ctl_time=0. Similarly, 
ProcessId::confirm just sets true.

This is all something to do with process "birthdays". Perhaps the idea 
was to run on a system which can tell you when process IDs are being 
recycled?

Regards,

Brian.