Re: [Condor-users] Pausing the Queue

[Sarah Williams <saewill@xxxxxxxxx>]

Won't this allow jobs that come in later to start running?

FWIW, I would think 'condor_off -all -startd -peaceful' is the way to go ...

--Sarah

On 6/24/11 11:41 AM, Timothy St. Clair wrote:
> $ man condor_hold 
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Examples
>        To place on hold all jobs (of the user that issued the
> condor_hold command)  that  are  not  currently running:
> 
>        % condor_hold -constraint "JobStatus!=2"
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Tim
> 
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:29 -0400, McGee, Kevin D. wrote:
>> We have a recurring problem; our grid is so successful that there are
>> typically several hundred jobs in the queue 24/7 and downtime is hard
>> to schedule.  We are still growing and upgrading our infrastructure,
>> so we need system downtime on a sporadic basis to change
>> configurations or bring new equipment online.  Because of the way our
>> application is architected, these changes go beyond adding or removing
>> compute nodes, the changes affect every copy of the application that
>> is running on the grid.  Is there a way to pause the job queue without
>> asking users to delete their jobs so that we can allow the jobs
>> running to finish with no new ones starting?  This would allow us to
>> wait for the grid to go idle, do our work and then resume job
>> submission.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Kevin
>>
>>  
>>
>> Kevin McGee
>> A2C5 Radar Modeling and Simulation Section Supervisor
>> A2C Missile Defense Radar Engineering Group
>> Air & Missile Defense Department
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