Re: [HTCondor-users] Only Match Machines Idle for > N Seconds

[Michael V Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"HTCondor-users" <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 11/04/2015 05:05:43 PM:

> From: William Strecker-Kellogg <willsk@xxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/04/2015 05:06 PM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to restrict jobs to only match machines that have been quiet
for more 
> than 5 minutes, by putting
> 
> Requirements = (CurrentTime - EnteredCurrentState > 300)
> 
> in my job description. Interestingly, the match is made successfully,
but it 
> looks like the _expression_ is evaluated again once the match is made
and after 
> EnteredCurrentState is updated, rendering it false and the job fails
to start:
> 
> 11/04/15 16:49:51 (pid:14409) slot3: Job Requirements check failed!
> 
> Does anybody have an idea of a way to accomplish this that would work?
> 
> Thanks,
> Will

If you say add || State =!= "Unclaimed"
at the end of it, it will only apply
the time interval to the unclaimed state rather than
Matched or Claimed.

     -Michael Pelletier.