Re: [HTCondor-users] Misspelled requirement

[Jacek Kominek <jkominek@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Todd,

It's quite possible the typo was reported (we are running HTCondor 
8.9.11), I only got a report about a forever-idle job without further 
specifics, so it is likely that the user didn't catch or understand it.

Thank you for the response, it clarifies it a bit. What bothers me the 
most is that it did get processed as a valid condor job requirement (not 
a variable/macro) even though the resource was non-existent in the 
system. This is a very particular and limited namespace, from what I 
know, since you can only request CPUs, GPUs, memory or diskspace. 
Correct me if I am wrong, but should anything else be flat out rejected 
in such context?

-Jacek


On 2/3/22 11:56, Todd Tannenbaum wrote:
> On 2/3/2022 11:48 AM, Jacek Kominek via HTCondor-users wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A user in our cluster submitted a job with a typo in its 
> > requirements: requestCUPS rather than requestCPUS. Rather than 
> > erroring out, the requirement was treated as valid and the job was 
> > forever stuck in Idle (since we have no cups in our cluster). Is this 
> > the expected behavior? Normally, if there are some errors/typos with 
> > the classads or variables the scheduler is pretty good at catching 
> > them and reporting shadow exceptions etc. I wonder if the resource 
> > requests are treated differently?
>
> Hi Jacek,
>
> Given that submit files can define custom macro names, it is a bit 
> challenging to detect typos like the above. However, upon job 
> submission, the user most definitely should have received a prominent 
> warning telling them they may have a typo in their submit file. Did 
> that warning not appear on your installation?
>
> Here is what I see when I tried reproducing what you described above:
>
> $ cat test.sub
> requestCUPS = 8
> executable = /bin/true
> queue
>
> $ condor_submit test.sub
> Submitting job(s).
> 1 job(s) submitted to cluster 2.
> WARNING: the line 'requestCUPS = 8' was unused by condor_submit. Is it 
> a typo?
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