[HTCondor-users] dagman evicting other jobs

[Jacek Kominek <jkominek@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
My name is Jacek, I work at UW in Genetics as a bioinformatician and I have the following problem: when I use our local WEI Scarcity cluster (running Condor 8.4.7) some of my jobs which are already running on the local pool (sometimes for days) get evicted out by another person's condor_dagman jobs. Is this supposed to be the expected behaviour? I know that condor has it's internal user-specific priorities based on usage etc, and yes, I am a higher-than-average-volume user on that pool, but I would expect that to kick in when there are competing jobs in the queue (i.e. other user's jobs getting started earlier than mine), rather than already during jobs execution. I would very much appreciate some clarification about that, thank you.

Cheers,
-Jacek

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Jacek Kominek
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Madison, WI  53706-1580
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