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

[Joachim Meyer <jmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,
thanks. That does indeed seem to help.
Is that something we can do as a workaround for now without fearing any 
issues?
(Using Docker and relying on cgroups mostly..)
Best,
Joachim

Am Dienstag, 22. November 2022, 18:29:24 CET schrieb Greg Thain via HTCondor-
users:
> 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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