Re: [Condor-users] preventing re-submission after eviction

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shrader, Joshua H. wrote:
> Is there a way to prevent a job from being re-submitted after it has
> been evicted?  We are testing our infrastructure to support the
> computing needs required for a project, and because of some unknown
> problem, jobs are being evicted and restarted.  If we run jobs over,
> say, the weekend, we have gobs and gobs of useless, duplicated data
> that has accumulated from jobs being evicted and restarted.  Is there
> a way to tell Condor "You have one chance to run this job.  If you
> can't do it, then give up."?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh

Have a look at NumJobStarts...

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.2/Appendix_A_ClassAd.html#75003

You can put it in your Requirements, and maybe even a PeriodicRemove.

Best,


matt