Re: [Condor-users] Vanilla jobs not automatically restart

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:03:13PM -0600, Dan Bradley wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:02:35PM -0600, Dan Bradley wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>The 6.8 series does not provide a good way to avoid multiple runs of a 
> >>job, because JobRunCount in the job ClassAd is actually the number of 
> >>times the schedd has started a shadow for the job, not the number of 
> >>times the job has actually been started.  You can try using JobRunCount 
> >>anyway, but it may sometimes be an overestimate of the number of times 
> >>the job has started.
> >>
> >>In 6.9.5 (about to be released), there is a new attribute of the job 
> >>ClassAd called NumJobStarts, which I think you should be able to use 
> >>like so in the submit file:
> >>
> >>periodic_hold = num_job_starts > 0 && JobStatus == 1
> >>requirements = num_job_starts == 0

NumJobStarts is documented in 6.9.5 as "not (yet) defined for standard universe
jobs".  Will this be defined in 7.0.0?

Thanks.


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