Re: [HTCondor-users] About idle job on Condor

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/07/2017 08:36 AM, Feldt, Andrew N. wrote:

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Bansal, Vikas <Vikas.Bansal@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I am new to Condor. I tried to search in archives about my problem. I suspect it is not a new problem that I am having but I was not able to find a clear solution.

Novice question.

1. Why do I see a job in Idle state? I suspect there is no general answer to that and it depends on case to case. Is that tight?

Here is an example of an idle job

ID      OWNER            SUBMITTED     RUN_TIME ST PRI SIZE CMD
686.0   dirac           3/29 17:30   0+06:12:22 I  0   0.0  DIRAC_HJzfpX_pilot

The job log file (if you've asked condor to create one) might be useful too -- try:

cat $(condor_q 686.0 -af UserLog)

Which should show you if the job is starting, and for how long it is running, and if it is getting preempted.

-greg