Re: [Condor-users] counting licenses

[Miron Livny <miron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:27 PM 5/3/2005, Joshua Kolden wrote:
> Thanks, but the problem here is that other jobs not restricted by licenses 
> may have control of these machines when a maya (to use your example) job 
> is submitted.  In

Assuming that the license is a "scarce" resource, will you be willing to 
preempt the job that does not use the license in order to make room for the 
maya job?

> theory the maya job is free to run on another cpu in the queue because 
> licenses are available, however it does not run.  This is the problem we 
> are running into now, along with more complex examples with multiple 
> licensed software packages interacting.

What kind of policies would you like to employ when allocating these 
licences? Do all jobs ask for the same "mix"?

Thanks,

Miron



> I need to have a dynamic expression in which I can tick off licenses use 
> independently of the cpu I'm running on.  Are dynamic expressions like 
> this even possible?
>
> Thanks,
> j