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I'm sorry if I've missed something elsewhere in the forums, but I wanted to ask a general question about what I'm seeing with LHCb jobs. I've noticed that recent tasks run a couple of jobs, wait ten minutes, and then shutdown. This seems very inefficient compared to CMS and Theory tasks (even though those jobs can have what seems to be hours of idle time). For example, here's part of the stderr output from Task 168175998:

2017-11-29 06:14:43 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] LHCb application starting. Check log files.
2017-11-29 06:14:43 (15391): Guest Log: [DEBUG] HTCondor ping
2017-11-29 06:14:45 (15391): Guest Log: [DEBUG] 0
2017-11-29 06:16:06 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] New Job Starting in slot1
2017-11-29 06:16:06 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Condor JobID: 5268.117 in slot1
2017-11-29 06:16:26 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Starting pilot in slot1
2017-11-29 06:18:59 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Job finished in slot1 with 700.
2017-11-29 06:19:26 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] New Job Starting in slot1
2017-11-29 06:19:26 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Condor JobID: 5268.181 in slot1
2017-11-29 06:19:47 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Starting pilot in slot1
2017-11-29 06:21:17 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Job finished in slot1 with 700.
2017-11-29 06:31:30 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Condor exited with return value N/A.
2017-11-29 06:31:30 (15391): Guest Log: [INFO] Shutting Down.
2017-11-29 06:31:30 (15391): VM Completion File Detected.
2017-11-29 06:31:30 (15391): VM Completion Message: Condor exited with return value N/A.

I see LHCb jobs running from 18 minutes to 13 hours on an i7-4770. So it appears that it varies a lot.

I see LHCb jobs running from 18 minutes to 13 hours on an i7-4770. So it appears that it varies a lot.

Yeah, I've had those long runners, too, but not in the last couple of days. Maybe my real question is about the nature or amount of the current LHCb work or how it's distributed.

The shutdown after 10min is by design, the VM will try to get work from the CERN servers, if it is not able to get work after 10min it quits.

This way you only waste 10min. Of course if you chose to run only LHCb then you will not be doing any processing on your computer