Re: [HTCondor-users] Negative kflops benchmarks (-2147483648) in HTCondor 25.0 LTS

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/9/26 12:48, Stefan Mohn via HTCondor-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to report an issue of our institutes HTCondor pool.
>
> Some nodes are not receiving any jobs and report unexpectedly negative benchmark values, with kflops = -2147483648. Multiple restarts of the condor service on the ten affected nodes only resolved the issue on 20 % of them. As a workaround, I generated artificial load on the nodes during the benchmarking process, which temporarily resolved the issue. However, the problem reappears whenever the condor service is restarted without artificial load present.

This looks like a different (though perhaps related?) problem than the 
earlier one. When the startd computes the kflops, it just runs the 
condor_kflops program. Does the problem ever happen on a standalone run 
of "condor_kflops" ? For an immediate workaround, you can hardcode the 
kflops value in the startd config file.


-greg