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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 15:28, Ewan wrote:
> > I'm a little concerned that when I raise the allowed number of 
> > running ones then we'll be running and finishing them faster than 
> > they're coming in.
> 
> I would not worry - the pilot factory is doing the right thing:
> 
> factory     : INFO     ANALY_OX: 772 activated jobs, 22 inactive
> pilots queued (>= queue depth 10 * depth boost 2). No extra pilots
> needed.
> 
> Raise the bar and the system will rebalance quickly. It's dangerous to
> send too many pilots to sites, they get stale.
> 
> Anyway, you want to leave the system for a couple of hours to get good
> stats at each measurement point.
> 

Things have mostly worked as expected with more pilots coming in as more

jobs are allowed to run, but it's falling behind now. I upped the number
of running jobs from fifty to a hundred at about half past eight, but at
the moment it's only running sixty-seven with none queued. Fresh pilots
are still arriving, but apparently not fast enough.

Ewan