Re: [HTCondor-users] Condor Messing with Performance Counters

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/22 03:09, Joachim Meyer wrote:
> Good day,
>
>
>
> I would assume this might be due to the use of performance counters for
> instruction counting in HTCondor interfering with other performance counting
> applications.
> Is there any way to simply disable HTCondor's "CPUInstructions" counting?


Hi Joachim:

The only way to disable this is to disable the standalone procd, by setting

USE_PROCD = false


on the worker node config (and restarting HTCondor). Let me know if 
this fixes

the problem, and we can give you a better fix.

-greg

> Are there any other ways you can think of, how running a job via HTCondor
> might have an effect on performance counting applications?
>
> Just to provide the additional information: I have not been able to reproduce
> this by just running a docker container on the same machine while measuring.
> Also, it does not have to be a special application run by the job, executing
> sleep in a plain ubuntu:latest docker container does have the same effect.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions how to deal with this in advance!
>
> Best,
> - Joachim Meyer
>
>
>
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