Hallo Christoph,
> It seems that the WMS recovered itself (being in
> drain mode) over the weekend. The WMS is full of Conder jobs in state
> "H" (hold). Do they harm? Some are weeks old already.
Normally held jobs do not harm, but the latest WMS version has an issue
for which the admin may need to intervene occasionally:
https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?69841
A cleanup cron job for held jobs is included in this bug:
https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?70401
The grace period of 1 week probably should be lowered to 1 day,
or even just a few hours...
> Another question, perhaps someone know the answer. Trying to get some
> understanding of the flow of a job through the WMS, I tried to follow a
> job that goes to a CREAM-CE. Are those jobs supposed to showup in the
> list of jobs listed with conder_q?
No. On a WMS the jobs for CREAM are handled by ICE, while jobs sent to
LCG-CE or ARC-CE instances are handled by Condor-G:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/EGEEgLiteJobSubmissionSchema
To see ICE details one can use /opt/glite/bin/queryDb on the WMS.
The "-h" option shows how.
