[Swift-devel] CPU usage with provider-deef

Ben Clifford benc at hawaga.org.uk
Sat Jun 16 09:22:26 CDT 2007


Cool.

Did you try the long long run again with that change in place?

Also what was the elapsed realtime for using GRAM2 vs Falkon for that 68 
node / ~15 minute workflow?

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Ioan Raicu wrote:

> Actually, it was a bug the Falkon provider, there was a tight polling loop on
> a task queue even if it was empty... it got fixed with one line of code :)
> its now running the CPU relatively idle for Nika's workflow which doesn't
> require high throughputs.
> 
> Thanks Yong for fixing it!
> 
> Ioan
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote:
> > It was running something like 68 jobs in 15 minutes. Kinda scary if each of
> > those jobs needs 15 cpu.seconds on the submit side.
> > 
> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > > That can either be good or bad. If the CPU is used doing meaningful
> > > stuff, then it's good. In other words, I'm guessing that the job
> > > throughput is also higher with Falkon.
> > > 
> > > Mihael
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:48 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Yesterday, I was playing a bit with Ioan and Nika - they submitted a 68
> > > > node / 15 minute workflow through provider-deef & falkon and saw the
> > > > swift JVM on the submit node using about 100% CPU; then the same
> > > > workflow running through the GT2 GRAM provider rather than provider-deef
> > > > and falkon appeared to use significantly less.
> > > > 
> > > > I wandered off at that point so don't know if any interesting results
> > > > came after.
> > > > 
> > > >       
> > >     
> > 
> >   
> 
> 



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