[Condor-users] Specifying Max Job Run Time

[Terrence Martin <tmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not suppose there is a recipe out there for restricting how long a 
job runs while at the same time making sure that jobs are not 
interrupted prior to that run time and for the long run jobs only to be 
kicked if there are other jobs waiting for the queue? Say a value of 72 
hours, that is both the min and max runtime for jobs but if the jobs are 
the only one on the cluster that they can just keep running.

There are a lot of settings it seems, from PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS to 
MaxJobRetirementTime to PREEMPT_LATENCY. It is just not all that clear 
to me how to go about getting all these settings to do what I want as 
far as putting an upper limit on jobs after which they can not be 
guaranteed to run, while at the same time not kicking off jobs that may 
be running long for legitimate reasons on an otherwise underused cluster.

Terrence