[Swift-user] job waiting

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 07:07 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Yue, Chen - BMD wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for answering my question. This phenomena occur after half an 
> > hour of execution. If all the jobs finish execution at original speed, 
> > it would probably take not more than 40 min. How the system figure out 
> > that some jobs will take more than 1 hour? Should I request more time 
> > when I execute "grid-proxy-init"?
> 
> Not with grid-proxy-init. You can specify a parameter called maxwalltime 
> in your sites file or your tc.data file that will tell Swift an upper 
> bound on how long your job will run. In Swift 0.8, coasters assume 
> something like 10 minutes if you do not specify a walltime, so you will 
> run into trouble.
> 
> For example, change the null at the end of your tc.data lines to 
> globus::maxwalltime=50  to mean 50 minutes maxwalltime.
> 
> There has been work done on coasters since Swift 0.8, and so Mihael may 
> have some other recommendations.

Yes. Coasters are experimental. As such, there are problems. However,
you may get better results with the current development version.

> 
> > I did not change the default throttles. How much is more appropriate? 
> > The total number of jobs in my application typically run between 4000 
> > and 30000 and typically each job can be finished within a couple of 
> > minutes.
> 
> Where is your Swift installation? I would liek to look at it.
>