[HTCondor-users] sharing resources without preempt, suspend and kill ?

[Laurent Wandrebeck <lw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

we have a small cluster (44 slots). For some reasons (using pyro as 
argument server, code unable to be checkpointed and unable to clean its 
temp files when killedâ), we have disabled preempt, kill and suspend.

Users submits quite heavy jobs (can last days, many queued (10k+ tasks 
for a given cluster), other users are starved.
Say user A queues cluster X,X+1,X+2, each containing 15k jobs (each 
running for a couple minutes). user B submits cluster X+3, 5k jobs. User 
B will have to wait quite a bunch.

Is there any way to make user B cluster  infiltrate  its jobs between 
currently running (user A) jobs when one stops ?

Thanks for helping,

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Laurent Wandrebeck
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