Re: Re: [Queue-developers] new intermediate development Queue version

[QingLong <qin...@Bo...>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:25:40PM +0100, Gert Van den Eynde wrote:
>
> I have even a more strange problem... (Yes, that's possible :-) )
>
> If I start queued simply with --foreground (so no --debug),
> the now queue doesn't accept any jobs.
> I get this as output from queue -i -v -w -p -h fermi -- hostname
>
> Requesting load average for queue "now" on host "fermi"...
> The host "fermi" is not able to serve queue "now".
> Failed to submit job in queue "now" to host "fermi".
>
   This is not strange, look in queued main() (queued.c around line 900):
|
|  /*
|   * Go to sleep for a while before flooding the system with
|   * jobs, in case it crashes again right away, or the
|   * system manager wants to prevent jobs from running.
|   * Send a SIGALRM to give it a kick-start.
|   */
|
|  if (!debug) {
|    alarm(sleeptime);
|
|    /* WGK: Rather than do a sigpause(), here, we do a check_query
|       here, which will cause us to wake up immediately if someone
|       submits a new job in the first few minutes. This could cause
|       the batchd to flood the system with new jobs in the event of an
|       immediate query, but is unlikely to cause any real problems.*/
|
|    check_query();
|
|    (void) alarm(0);
|  }
|
 One have to wait for sleeptime seconds after starting queued in non-debug mode
 until it will begin accepting jobs. Haven't I already pointed this out here?

>
> If I start queued with --foreground --debug,
> I get from queue -i -v -w -p -h fermi -- hostname
>
> Requesting load average for queue "now" on host "fermi"...
> Host "fermi" appears to be able to serve queue "now".
> Ok, connecting to QueueD at it.
> Trying "fermi"...
> Going to submit job to queue "now" on host "fermi".
> queue.c: main(): tty(in/out/err): 1 1 1.
> fermi
>
   Isn't thisexpected output?
 What is the problem here?

      QingLong.