Re: [Condor-users] ClassAd for total number of Condor jobs

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:29:33PM -0400, Ian Chesal wrote:
> > However, vm state isn't updated during the negotiation cycle
> 
> Actually, how hard would it be to update this during the negotiation
> cycle? I'd be interested in using a similar ranking scheme. It'd be nice
> if I could define a list of attributes that I wanted updated during
> negotiation. So if I was willing to take the hit on negotiation time I
> could update as many arbitrary attributes I could tolerate. In
> particular I'd like to see anything I push on the STARTD_VM_EXPRS list
> to get updated because I'm usually interested in doing some
> ranking/start-expression writing based on what the other VMs on a
> machine are doing.
> 

It's computationally not that expensive, it's something we've thought
about (and have even hacked on briefly to experiment with) but we've
got no firm plans on if, how, or when to support. 

-Erik