Re: [Condor-users] Suspended --> Retiring transition

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Morgan wrote:

> > Due to a subtlety of the design, yes, there will be another
> > Suspended->Retiring transition in this case.  Internally, there are two
> > kinds of retirement: reversible and irreversible.  PREEMPT causes a
> > transition to irreversible retirement, while a preempting claim causes a
> > transition to reversible retirement, so if the preempting claim goes 
> > away
> > before the retirement is completed, the original claim backs out of
> > retirement.
>
> I thought this was a typically opaque reply from our Pensions 
> Department. I was confused because I haven't asked for retirement yet 
> but I would be interested in early retirement. Does Condor have this? ;-)


Yes.  Condor 6.7.2 offers early retirement!  Even if there are no 
preempting claims to a machine, you can define a policy that retires 
claims without killing jobs.  Behold:

MaxJobRetirementTime = 3600 * 24 * 365 * 60   # a nice long retirement
PREEMPT = StateTimer > 30 * 60                # start retiring the claim 
after 30 minutes

We've already run into a use-case where this is a desirable thing to 
do.  However, with respect to the Pensions Department angle, I am a 
little disturbed to see that "retirement" is the time taken for your job 
to finish, not the amount of time you get to play around after the job 
finishes.  Oops!

--Dan