Hello,

I see, thanks for your reply!

I just recall another question, is that possible to specify configuration
file for my project running on ducc, in the job file?

Thanks,
Yi-Wen

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Lou DeGenaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yi-Wen,
>
> Privileged ducc_ling is for situations where sharing of resources and data
> privacy are desired.  For example, user "ducc" would use ducc_ling to
> assume the identity of the job submitter in order to gain access to read
> and write.  This is useful on large compute clusters with many users. When
> testing on my small simulated cluster I do not use a privileged ducc_ling.
>
> Your second question is harder to answer without more information.  Was
> there any contention for resources (CPU,disk)?  Look at the Work Items tab
> for the longest and shortest jobs and see if you notice any pattern.  Were
> work items slow on a particular node?  Were delivery times longer?  Were
> process times longer for a few or all the work items?  Was there a lot of
> pre-emption (two or more jobs running at once)?  Was there an equal amount
> of resource (e.g. number of processes) allocated to each job?
>
> Lou.
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Yi-Wen Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some small questions about DUCC, most of them are not technical,
> > hope somebody can help me out, thanks!
> >
> > From https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/UIMA/DUCC, it includes
> a
> > step "Privileged ducc_ling".
> > But if I ignore this step, DUCC still works well, I am wondering what is
> > this step especially for?
> >
> > The second question is, I submitted same input files many times, and the
> > completed time were very different, range from 2 min to 7 min.
> > While I was running DUCC I didn't let the computer busy, and one job
> > running at a time.
> > Is there a reason why it sometimes finished early sometimes it took such
> a
> > long time to complete the job?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yi-Wen
> >
>

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