Re: [HTCondor-users] Avoiding CPU wastage

[Vikrant Aggarwal <ervikrant06@xxxxxxxxx>]

This seems to be only not behaving properly with condor version 8.5.8 but in version 8.6.13Â working as expected.

Thanks & Regards,

Vikrant Aggarwal

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:30 PM Vikrant Aggarwal <ervikrant06@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Team,

Referring [1], [2] old email threads I am testing in lab to take action on the jobs which are running for more than 180s with both higher and lower CPU utilization.Â

- In following submit file I am generating load using stress and if the CPU utilization goes about .4 then putting the job on hold and releasing it using periodic_release so that it can get schedule on another node. Strangely job is going into hold status within 11s of running as per remotewallclocktime, parameters used for evaluating the _expression_ should return value greater than .4 not sure why hold reason is showing condition is UNDEFINED.

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$ cat stress.shÂ

#!/bin/bash

stress --cpu 1 -t 360

$ cat stress.sub

executable       = sleep.sh

log          Â= stress.log

output         = outfile$(Process).txt

error         Â= errors$(Process).txt

runtime = (time() - JobCurrentStartDate)

TotalExecutingTime = ifthenelse(JobStatus == 2 && $(runtime) > 300, $(runtime), 0)

RemoteCpuUtilizationPercent = (((RemoteSysCpu + RemoteUserCpu) / RequestCpus) / $(TotalExecutingTime) * 100)

periodic_hold = ($(RemoteCpuUtilizationPercent) > 40)

periodic_hold_reason = "Using cpu more than threshold"

periodic_hold_subcode = 30

PeriodicRelease = (JobRunCount < 5 && HoldReasonCode == 3 && $(periodic_hold_subcode) == 30)

should_transfer_files Â= Yes

when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT

Initialdir = dir$(Process)

queue

$ condor_q 2564.0

-- Schedd: testmachine : <IPaddress:9618?... @ 05/13/19 05:32:39

OWNERÂ Â ÂBATCH_NAMEÂ Â Â Â SUBMITTEDÂ ÂDONEÂ ÂRUNÂ Â IDLEÂ ÂHOLDÂ TOTAL JOB_IDS

vaggarwal CMD: stress.sh Â5/13 05:30   _   _   _   1   1 2564.0

1 jobs; 0 completed, 0 removed, 0 idle, 0 running, 1 held, 0 suspended

$ condor_q 2566.0 -af holdreason holdreasoncode

The job attribute PeriodicHold _expression_ '( ( ( ( RemoteSysCpu + RemoteUserCpu ) / RequestCpus ) / ifthenelse(JobStatus == 2 && ( time() - JobCurrentStartDate ) > 300,( time() - JobCurrentStartDate ),0) * 100 ) > 40 )' evaluated to UNDEFINED 5

$ condor_q 2564.0 -af RemoteSysCpu RemoteUserCpu RequestCpus remotewallclocktime

0.0 8.0 1 11.0

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- If I am running the same scenario for sleep job, it's working as expected. Job went into hold status 3 times and during the last time because of false PeriodicRelease condition, it remains in hold status.Â

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cat sleep.sh

#!/bin/bash

# file name: sleep.sh

TIMETOWAIT="1020"

echo "sleeping for $TIMETOWAIT seconds"

/bin/sleep $TIMETOWAITÂ

$ cat sleep.subÂ

executable       = sleep.sh

log          Â= sleep.log

output         = outfile$(Process).txt

error         Â= errors$(Process).txt

runtime = (time() - JobCurrentStartDate)

TotalExecutingTime = ifthenelse(JobStatus == 2 && $(runtime) > 300, $(runtime), 0)

RemoteCpuUtilizationPercent = (((RemoteSysCpu + RemoteUserCpu) / RequestCpus) / $(TotalExecutingTime) * 100)

periodic_hold = ($(RemoteCpuUtilizationPercent) < 20)

periodic_hold_reason = "Using cpu less than threshold"

periodic_hold_subcode = 30

PeriodicRelease = (JobRunCount < 5 && HoldReasonCode == 3 && $(periodic_hold_subcode) == 30)

should_transfer_files Â= Yes

when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT

Initialdir = dir$(Process)

queue

$ condor_q 2555.0 -af holdreason holdreasoncode

Using cpu less than threshold 3

$ condor_q 2555.0 -af RemoteSysCpu RemoteUserCpu RequestCpus remotewallclocktime

0.0 0.0 1 301.0

~~~

My objective is to hold the job if it's not doing any activity which seems to be working fine but I want to confirm the other way around as well to ensure that behavior is as expected.Â

Some queries related to RemoteSysCpu RemoteUserCpu

- During testing I observed that RemoteSysCpu RemoteUserCpu are getting change only when job status is changed otherwise they remain 0.

- Also are these parameters are accumulative like remotewallclocktime?

[1] https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/htcondor-users/2017-April/msg00103.shtml

[2] https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/htcondor-users/2018-September/msg00092.sht

Thanks & Regards,

Vikrant Aggarwal