Re: [HTCondor-users] Sudden death of a Rooster

[Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning Greg,

On Mon, 2025-12-08 at 10:34:16 -0600, HTCondor Users Mailinglist wrote:
> On 12/8/25 09:07, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > 
> > So the rooster is getting its own wings amended by a spaceship (operator)?
> > I'm surprised that there are equal RANKs at all (I'm adding a good helping
> > of random() to them)...
> 
> What are your RANK expressions?  If there's a random() in there, it might be
> making the crashing problem worse, as the code is written now.

Although I don't fully understand the reasons and consequences, I removed the
random(43200) terms - which I had added to shuffle the node list in an attempt
to avoid unresponsive nodes (which are now slightly better understood, properly
detected, and set to Absent to block further matches).

Thanks for looking into this corner as well,
 S