Re: [Condor-devel] KILLING_TIMEOUT in 7.6.0

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is now a ticket for this issue:

https://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=2142

On 5/6/11 8:31 PM, Dan Bradley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if the change in behavior of preemption in 7.5 was 
> really intended to be as broad as it is.  Now, the KILL expression is 
> useless by default, because when a job is preempted, it is hard-killed 
> as soon as KILLING_TIMEOUT expires.  The default KILLING_TIMEOUT is 
> just 30s.  We've received complaints in CHTC from users who have 
> self-checkpointing jobs that cannot save state in this amount of 
> time.  I will crank the knob higher, but I consider this a workaround, 
> not a resolution.
>
> This new behavior came from the following:
>
> https://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=1198
>
> Prior to this, KILLING_TIMEOUT was the timeout applied to the 
> Preempting/Killing activity.  Now, it effectively applies to 
> Preempting/Vacating as well.
>
> I see no release notes warning admins of this important change.
>
> --Dan
>
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