Re: [HTCondor-users] [resubmit jobs]

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/1/2014 11:03 AM, Sunshine wrote:
> I submit some jobs.
> A few of jobs took 2 hours to complete, but I think the time should be 20m and some similar jobs indeed finished within 20minutes.
> I think something wrong with my jobs or clusters..
>
>
> My question: how do I let a job restart after a specific time?
> For example, if a job didn't finish within 5 minutes, then let the job resubmit?ãor restart on a different machine?
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> For example, i submit 100 jobs, then 99 jobs finished within 20m, but a job cost 2hours long , i want to resubmit a job.
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> I used following:
> periodic_remove = (CurrentTime - EnteredCurrentStatus >60*20)âââ
> then check the log, then submit the failed job.
>
>
> Any better ideas?

Yes.  See

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=HowToAutoRetryElsewhere


regards,
Todd