[Condor-users] Disabling the restarting of jobs

["Robert E. Parrott" <parrott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

We have a certain set of users whose parallel code is fairly strict  
in the way it names and manages files. They are looking for an option  
to disable the restarting of jobs after the jobs have been damaged  
(for example by an OOM condition on a node), because a restarted job  
will otherwise overwrite the partial, and still usable, data files.

Is there a submit file expression, of a config expression, with a  
boolean to be added to the config file, that would put all jobs that  
would otherwise restart into a "hold" state?

As a secondary question, would there be a way to update the  
"HoldReason" classad expression with something relevant?

thanks,
rob


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Robert E. Parrott, Ph.D. (Phys. '06)
Associate Director, Grid and
        Supercomputing Platforms
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