Tasker Status
The following table applies to "direct" taskers and to "BPS
agents".
| Status | Color | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Idle | green | The tasker is ready to run jobs. |
| Working | dark yellow | The tasker is running some jobs and it has some additional capacity. |
| Full | light yellow | The tasker is running as many jobs as it is capable. |
| Overloaded | red | The load on the host where the tasker is running is higher than the maximum load allowed by the tasker. |
| Busy | light gray | The tasker is doing some bookkeeping operation. |
| Suspended | purple | The tasker has been suspended and it is not accepting any new jobs. |
| Paused | pale purple | The tasker has been paused by a signal from an external process. It can be awakened by sending a SIGCONT signal. |
| Sick | black | The tasker has not sent the heartbeat for more than twice its update interval (update interval is 1 minute by default). |
| Requested (previously called Down) | dark gray | The tasker is persistent (not transient) and the associated client is currently not connected. |
| Done | blue | The tasker is about to exit and no longer accepting jobs. |
| NoLic | gray | The tasker is waiting for a license. |
Status of BPS Taskers
A BPS tasker is a tasker that represent a computing host that belongs to another Batch Processing System (e.g. SGE or Accelerator).
| Status | Color | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ok | green | Not in an error condition. |
| Warning | red | Used for BPS taskers. The BPS system reports some problems with this tasker. |
| Unknown | gray | The BPS system has not reported enough information about this host. |