Re: [Condor-users] Job attribute based preemption

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah.  You want the machine to provide a long retirement time except when 
the job is being preempted by certain other types of jobs?  There is 
currently no way to look at arbitrary attributes of the preempting job 
from the MaxJobRetirementTime expression.  However, you can compare 
PreemptingRank and CurrentRank or PreemptingOwner and Owner.  Example:

MaxJobRetirementTime = (...) * (isUndefined(PreemptingRank) || 
PreemptingRank <= CurrentRank)

I haven't tested that, but I think that should set MaxJobRetirementTime 
to 0 if PreemptingRank is greater than CurrentRank.  You could be more 
specific in which types of jobs are allowed to be quickly preempted, 
but, since you can't access attributes of the preempting job, you can't 
be more specific in terms of which type of job is allowed to quickly 
preempt, other than, as I mentioned before, not letting them pass 
through the START expression in the first place.

--Dan

Horvátth Szabolcs wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> But I do have to lower the MaxJobRetirementTime if I want to make the 
> preemption instantaneous, don't I?
> If I only modify the start expression I get the preemption happening 
> (actually almost all of my running jobs
> are already preempted because of the rank expression we use) but it is 
> not instant.
>
> Cheers,
> Szabolcs
>
>
> Dan Bradley wrote:
>  
>
> > MaxJobRetirementTime is useful for controlling how long the existing job 
> > is allowed to run once it is preempted.  To control whether the existing 
> > job gets preempted or not, I would suggest using a combination of RANK 
> > and START expressions.  For example, the START expression can look at 
> > attributes of the existing job (published into the machine ClassAd via 
> > STARTD_JOB_EXPRS) to decide whether it is acceptable to preempt the 
> > existing job.
> >
> > --Dan
> >  
> >    
>
>
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