On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Daniel R Figueiredo wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, I am a user of a Condor cluster (and
not the administrator). From what I understood, the condor config file you
sent below is meant to configurate the behavior of the entire cluster.
Although I could request the system administrator to alter the
configuration, I still wonder if a user can do something about this
problem. Can a user request its job to be suspended instead of terminated?
Any thoughts are welcome.
No, they can't. The administrator has to configure Condor to do this.
Even suspended, the job uses some resources on the execute machine (if
nothing else, the disk space used to transfer it there) so the blessing
must come from the administrator.
In our department, we set up special VMs that suspend the running job
when a job starts running on another VM on the system. You need to use
the 6.7 series to enable it, but the details are in the 'Condor and
The Bolonga Batch System':
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/technical.html
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