[gridengine users] Jobs sometimes run in wrong directory

[Lane Schwartz]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Reuti <reuti at staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
> Am 31.01.2012 um 18:10 schrieb Lane Schwartz:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rayson Ho <rayson at scalablelogic.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have encountered a problem where sometimes (but not always) my jobs
>>>> ignore the -cwd or -wd flags and run in my home directory instead of
>>>> the specified working directory. I can run the same job multiple times
>>>> launching from the same directory, and sometimes the job correctly
>>>> runs from the current directory, and sometimes it runs from my home
>>>> directory.
>>>
>>> I ran over 100 test jobs and all of them ran in directory specified in
>>> -cwd or -wd. How easy is it to reproduce the issue?? Is the home
>>> directory on NFS or some kind of network or cluster storage??
>>
>> The home directory is mounted via NFS. The correct directory (where
>> the jobs are launched from) is also on NFS.
>
> Do you use automounter or is it a hard mount?
>
> (/scratch4 is mounted on all the exechosts if I get you right)

The /scratch4 directory is hard mounted on all of the hosts.

Lane