Re: [Condor-users] how to resrict job run time

[Alexander Withers <alexw@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:58:47PM +0200, Jens Harting wrote:
> >How about the following:
> >periodic_hold = (JobStatus == 2) && ((CurrentTime - JobCurrentStartDate) >
> >$(maxRunTime))
> >periodic_release = TRUE
> >
> >This worked for our purpose, which was for a job to restart after a certain
> >amount of time.  We had jobs that for some reason would "run away"
> >sometimes, but when they were restarted would work just fine, so the goal
> >here was to restart (vanilla job, so hold and then immediately release would
> >do the trick).
> >
> >Michael.
> 
> Thanks Michael. That was a good hint. Just setting 
> 
> maxRunTime      = 600
> periodic_remove = (JobStatus == 2) && ((CurrentTime - JobCurrentStartDate) > $(maxRunTime))
> 
> does the job.
> 
> but I still wonder, why the value of RemoteWallClockTime is not updated 
> properly...
> 

RemoteWallClockTime only gets updated when a job is evicted or exits.


Alex