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if err := jm.podControl.CreatePodsWithControllerRef(job.Namespace, &job.Spec.Template, job, newControllerRef(job)); err != nil { defer utilruntime.HandleError(err) // Decrement the expected number of creates because the informer won't observe this pod <ins> glog.V(2).Infof("Failed creation, decrementing expectations for job %q/%q", job.Namespace, job.Name) </ins> jm.expectations.CreationObserved(jobKey) activeLock.Lock() active-- activeLock.Unlock() <ins> errCh <- err </ins> } }() } wait.Wait() } <del> return active </del> <ins> select { case err := <-errCh: // all errors have been reported before, we only need to inform the controller that there was an error and it should re-try this job once more next time. if err != nil { return active, err } default: } return active, nil </ins> } func (jm *JobController) updateJobStatus(job *batch.Job) error {

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First job: Start Time: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:00:08 +0300 One of the remaining 2 jobs: Start Time: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:13:34 +0300 What you expected to happen: I'm expecting the two waiting jobs to start executing as soon as the resources they need are available, e.g. as soon as the first jobs are completed. How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): Bring up a kubernetes cluster, then execute these commands: $ kubectl create quota memoryquota --hard=memory=400Mi (cat /dev/urandom head -n 1)' --replicas=1 --restart=OnFailure --image-pull-policy=IfNotPresent --limits=memory='2'm run- $ chmod +x run- $ for i in {1.4}; do ./run- 200 100; done job "memhog-0ju2eiuy" created job "memhog-t8qyt5sj" created job "memhog-ljaqz4ek" created job "memhog-eb8q8kr3" created Wait for around 30 seconds and the first jobs should be complete: $ kubectl get jobs NAME DESIRED SUCCESSFUL AGE memhog-0ju2eiuy 1 1 43s memhog-eb8q8kr3 1 0 42s memhog-ljaqz4ek 1 0 43s memhog-t8qyt5sj 1 1 43s $ kubectl describe jobs . However, the remaining jobs don't start at all as shown by: $ kubectl describe job memhog-ljaqz4ek Name: memhog-ljaqz4ek Namespace: test Selector: controller-uid=-2f00-11e7-8766- Labels: run=memhog-ljaqz4ek Annotations: run memhog-ljaqz4ek memhog -r100 100m --replicas=1 --restart=OnFailure --image-pull-policy=IfNotPresent --limits=memory=200Mi,cpu=100m --record=true --image=derekway.

Parallelism: 1 Completions: 1 Pods Statuses: 0 Running / 0 Succeeded / 0 Failed Pod Template: Labels: controller-uid=-2f00-11e7-8766- job-name=memhog-ljaqz4ek run=memhog-ljaqz4ek Containers: memhog-ljaqz4ek: Image: derekwaynecarr/memhog Port: Command: memhog -r100 100m Limits: cpu: 100m memory: 200Mi Environment: <noneMounts: <noneVolumes: <noneEvents: FirstSeen LastSeen Count From SubObjectPath Type Reason Message --------- -------- ----- ---- ------------- -------- ------ ------- 3m 3m 1 job-controller Warning FailedCreate Error creating: pods "memhog-ljaqz4ek-" is forbidden: exceeded quota: memoryquota, requested: memory=200Mi, used: memory=400Mi, limited: memory=400Mi Furthermore, pods related to the remaining jobs aren't even created and only the completed pods are shown: $ kubectl get pods -a NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE memhog-0ju2eiuy-bz0zm 0/1 Completed 0 7m memhog-t8qyt5sj-q9msw 0/1 Completed 0 7m Anything else we need to know: I've also created a stackoverflow question about this (), and asked about this in the kubernetes slack, where I was urged to create a bug report.
I will try to reproduce. The creation of a pod will be blocked by quota. In the absence of a pod, the scheduler has nothing to schedule, so it is not a scheduling bug. It's possible the issue is related to back-off in the job controller not attempting to create pods again. The event shows that it had been 3m since the job controller attempted to create pods again for the requisite job which implies some type of back-off. None of the controllers are quota aware, so I would anticipate they should just keep trying at reasonable intervals at this point. If you describe quota after the first 2 pods are completed, do you see quota usage being replenished as expected?
I would like to fix the bug, could you assigin it to me?

if pod create failed, jobcontroller.managejob() need return error, will requeue podcreate task.
-- maybe you have more insight, but it looks to me just reading the code that when a job controller is unable to create a pod due to lack of quota, its not actually an error that forces a re-queue of the job. in addition, i cant actually see when a full resync of the job work queue happens outside of the informer sync interval which is probably really long. see: see:
- feel free to open a pr, please cc me on your solution. i would like to understand from the job folks if there should be a periodic resync interval aside from the need to requeue the job when all pods cannot be spawned (which i assume your pr will handle via exponential backoff)
-- we will want to have a fix for this downstream as well.
Yes, after the first two jobs are complete, shows that 0M out of 400M is in use. I'm also able to create new jobs, up to the memory limit so 2 at a time, that execute as expected. Any jobs over that at a time will stay in the same waiting state.
- Yes, I want handle it via exponential backoff. IMO, MaxOfRateLimiter had implemented a periodic resync, we don't need another one.
I'll make sure to cherry-pick this to openshift ( fyi).