We want the job to release the scarce resource on the EP (the GPUs) and let other jobs that have been waiting have a turn. Ideally, the job would get back in line. (We will be urging our users to checkpoint their jobs).
From: Cole Bollig <cabollig@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 1:51âPM
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Subject: Re: Limiting jobs to two days
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Hi Gerard,
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What do you mean by limit jobs to two days? Do you mean we want to only allow user jobs to execute a max of two days on a EP?
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What do you want to happen when the max time is reached? Remove the job? Hold the job? Kick the job off the EP for a bit of time?
-Cole Bollig
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Subject: [HTCondor-users] Limiting jobs to two days
We want to limit user jobs to two days to more fairly allocate resources. Weâre asking user to checkpoint their jobs if they are going to run longer than that.
Itâs not clear which SYSTEM_PERIODIC_ we should set to best implement this.
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GERARD WEATHERBY
Application Architect
NMRhub
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