Re: [HTCondor-users] Warning for resource requests without units

[John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

SUBMIT_TRANSFORM and SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT both happen too late to know if units were used in the submit file.   The only way to know that would be to look in the submit file before the job was submitted.   The check would have to be client side, there really is no way to do it server side.

Basically the only way I can think to do this would be to have a knob for condor_submit to have it check in the c++ code while processing the file. 

You can do a range check server side for values that are wildly too large or too small.  Do this by configuring a SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT  as either an error or WARNING  to report RequestMemory values that were excessive or merely quite large.   

-tj

-----Original Message-----
From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Anderson, Stuart B.
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 11:49 AM
To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HTCondor-users] Warning for resource requests without units

What is the best way to configure Condor to generate a submit-time warning for jobs that do not specify units for their resource requests?

The problem I want to solve is users mistakenly assuming, for example, that request_memory has the same default units as request_disk, which results in either excessive job queue wait times, or jobs wasting 99.9% of the memory they are allocated.

Note, someone on the OSG team thought that job transforms happen too late for this use case, and if this works out I may eventually want to change the warning to an error.

Thanks.

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Stuart Anderson
sba@xxxxxxxxxxx




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