Hi Stephen,
I've got such jobs in Birmingham too, sleeping for as long as 200 seconds.
It looks as if they using boinc, I'm going to look at them more closely...
Thanks,
Yves
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Stephen Childs wrote:
> Our cluster is currently almost filled by biomed jobs that don't seem to be
> consuming any CPU time. Looking on the WNs, there are programs running with
> names such as "job_pull.sh" but little real work is being done. These look
> very like pilot jobs to me, and I'd prefer not to have them blocking slots
> that could be used by others. (At the very least I'd expect them to vacate
> their slot after a few minutes without work.) Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Stephen
> P.S. They all seem to be submitted by the same user.
>
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