[HTCondor-users] Preventing users from submitting too many jobs

[Vladimir Brik <vladimir.brik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I would like to have a mechanism to prevent a user from submitting new 
jobs if he or she already has a large number of jobs in the queue (e.g. 
>20,000).

SUBMIT_MAX_PROCS_IN_CLUSTER and MAX_JOBS_SUBMITTED help, but don't solve 
the problem completely because they are global limits, and I'd like to 
have per-user limits.

What I am thinking of doing is replacing condor_submit with a wrapper 
that runs condor_q to check if the user submitted too many jobs, and if 
so, drops a config file with appropriate SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT_* to block 
the user from submitting more. The wrapper would be clever enough to 
skip condor_q if its called too frequently.

Does anybody know of a simpler way to have per-user limits on the number 
of jobs in queue?

Is there a way to do something similar for jobs submitted using python 
bindings and/or remote submissions?


Thanks,

Vlad