[Swift-devel] Re: Swift jobs on UC/ANL TG

Mike Kubal mikekubal at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 29 09:01:38 CST 2008


Yes, I have a TG project. I should have updated my
swift sites file after initial testing.

Is it common for the TG project id to be the same as
the local with just the 'TG-' and 'UC'- prefix
switched?


--- Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Also, it looks like you're using a local project and
> not a TG project.  
> We are not able to report this usage to NSF because
> it counts against  
> our discretionary usage. Do you have a TG project?
> If not can you  
> request a DACC allocation to use?
> 
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 01/28/08 07:13 PM, Mike Kubal
> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I'm submitting molecular dynamics simulations
> > using Swift.
> >
> > Is there a default wall-time limit for jobs on
> tg-uc?
> >
> >
> >
> > --- joseph insley <insley at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >> Actually, these numbers are now escalating...
> >>
> >> top - 17:18:54 up  2:29,  1 user,  load average:
> >> 149.02, 123.63, 91.94
> >> Tasks: 469 total,   4 running, 465 sleeping,   0
> >> stopped,   0 zombie
> >>
> >> insley at tg-grid1:~> ps -ef | grep kubal | wc -l
> >>     479
> >>
> >> insley at tg-viz-login1:~> time globusrun -a -r
> >> tg-grid.uc.teragrid.org
> >> GRAM Authentication test successful
> >> real    0m26.134s
> >> user    0m0.090s
> >> sys     0m0.010s
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:15 PM, joseph insley wrote:
> >>
> >>> Earlier today tg-grid.uc.teragrid.org (the
> UC/ANL
> >> TG GRAM host)
> >>> became unresponsive and had to be rebooted.  I
> am
> >> now seeing slow
> >>> response times from the Gatekeeper there again.
> >> Authenticating to
> >>> the gatekeeper should only take a second or two,
> >> but it is
> >>> periodically taking up to 16 seconds:
> >>>
> >>> insley at tg-viz-login1:~> time globusrun -a -r
> >> tg-grid.uc.teragrid.org
> >>> GRAM Authentication test successful
> >>> real    0m16.096s
> >>> user    0m0.060s
> >>> sys     0m0.020s
> >>>
> >>> looking at the load on tg-grid, it is rather
> high:
> >>>
> >>> top - 16:55:26 up  2:06,  1 user,  load average:
> >> 89.59, 78.69, 62.92
> >>> Tasks: 398 total,  20 running, 378 sleeping,   0
> >> stopped,   0 zombie
> >>>
> >>> And there appear to be a large number of
> processes
> >> owned by kubal:
> >>> insley at tg-grid1:~> ps -ef | grep kubal | wc -l
> >>>    380
> >>>
> >>> I assume that Mike is using swift to do the job
> >> submission.  Is
> >>> there some throttling of the rate at which jobs
> >> are submitted to
> >>> the gatekeeper that could be done that would
> >> lighten this load
> >>> some?  (Or has that already been done since
> >> earlier today?)  The
> >>> current response times are not unacceptable, but
> >> I'm hoping to
> >>> avoid having the machine grind to a halt as it
> did
> >> earlier today.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> joe.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> ===================================================
> >>> joseph a.
> >>> insley
> >>
> >>> insley at mcs.anl.gov
> >>> mathematics & computer science division
> >> (630) 252-5649
> >>> argonne national laboratory
> >>       (630)
> >>> 252-5986 (fax)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> ===================================================
> >> joseph a. insley
> >>
> >> insley at mcs.anl.gov
> >> mathematics & computer science division      
> (630)
> >> 252-5649
> >> argonne national laboratory
> >>     (630)
> >> 252-5986 (fax)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >       
> >
>
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