[Swift-devel] coaster + fletch-condor command line truncation

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 23:48 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> If I submit to fletch using coasters and gt2:fork, my tests run OK.
> 
> If I tell coasters to use gt2:condor to submit workers, then I get 
> problems with commandline truncation - 130-fmri has a job in the middle 
> with a bunch of input files.
> 
> r2073 adds the two sites files that demonstrate this:
> 
> cd tests/sites/
> 
> ./run-site coaster/fletch-coaster-gram2-gram2-fork.xml
> 
> works for me and
> 
> ./run-site coaster/fletch-coaster-gram2-gram2-condor.xml
> 
> does not work for me.
> 
> The jobs that fail get run on gwynn.bsd.uchicago.edu most of the time. So 
> I tried running coasters locally on gwynn itself 
> (tests/sites/coaster-local.xml) and that works ok.
> 
> I have not dug into this deeply; however at first glance it seems somewhat 
> puzzling.
> 
> Changing the mechanism by which coaster workers are submitted should not 
> change the command-line handling of jobs submitted through coasters; at 
> least not from my general understanding of coaster architecture.
> 
> Maybe there is something funny happening with different shell or perl 
> versions or something like that.

May it be that the condor/gram version installed there is different and
fixes some of the quoting problems resulting in twice quoted things?

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