Re: [HTCondor-users] condor_submit - Rank expression of jobs ignored

[Felix Wolfheimer <f.wolfheimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've investigated this effect in my pool and here's the explanation: I found out that condor assigns some arbitrary "NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK" to my machines which overwrites the "Rank" _expression_ in the job's submit file. As I've defined NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK neither in my global condor_config file nor in my condor_config.local file it's unclear to me where this comes from. Definitely, there has been a change from condor 8.0.5 to condor 8.2.4 in this regard such that an erroneous (?) value for the NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK is created if it's not defined in the condor_config file. For my case the solution was simply to set

NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK = 0

in my condor_config.local file.
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2015-01-13 13:38 GMT+01:00 Felix Wolfheimer <f.wolfheimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Recently, I upgraded my pool from condor 8.0.5 to condor 8.2.4 and noticed that the Rank expressions in the job description file I hand over to condor_submit seem to be ignored completely. As an example: When I set

Rank = KFlops

or

Rank = Memory

Condor assigns the jobs to arbitrary machines in the pool even if all machines in the pool are unclaimed/idle whereas in Condor 8.0.5 the correct machine was chosen (with the same job description file). The config file I use for 8.0.5 and 8.2.4 is identical.

My first question is: Is this a known issue of the new version and/or does anyone have the same issue?

Second question: I'd like to debug this and for this I'd need to see somehow the Rank the job assigns to each specific machine such that I can understand what's happening. Is there a debug flag I could switch on for the daemons such that this information is written to the logs and I can analyze the matchmaking process?