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<div>I am seeing a transient failure in condor jobs dependencies. The sentinel jobs created by condor_qsub are releasing dependencies early in some cases. I adding logging to the sentinel job scripts and can see the count of "hold_jids" returned by the following
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<div> condor_q -long -attributes Owner \$hold_jids | grep "$USER" | wc –l</div>
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<div>The sentinel job then releases the held job and exits. As the count of hold_jids is in reality non-zero, those jobs proceed to normal completion, but out of sequence. </div>
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<div>In most of my tests the hold is released at the correct time. Has anyone seen transient failures on condor_q that might cause this? </div>
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<div>In my configuration the submit node is the head node and also a worker node. Is it possible the server is too busy to make a timely response so the client gives up? </div>
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<div>Thanks, </div>
<div>Philip</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">Philip B. Chase</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">Assistant Director</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">Clinical and Translational Science IT</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">University of Florida</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas,monospace">pbc@ufl.edu</font></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; ">352-294-5164</span></div>
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