[Swift-devel] Re: examining the plots of a 65535 job CNARI run

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:41 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > > A large number though take what looks to be about 2000 seconds to end (and 
> > > seemingly all are about the same duration, which maybe means its a timeout 
> > > on the task itself);
> > 
> > That's probably when no worker is allocated, so it includes the queue
> > time.
> 
> My understanding of the allocation pattern for workers is that there 
> should be plenty of spare workers most/all of the time.
> 
> These tasks aren't appearing at the every-6300s restart-the-workers points 
> - they seem scattered fairly evenly throughout the execution.

When a task needs a new worker it becomes bound to the request for the
new worker. It does not go to another worker if it becomes available
while its worker is queued.