Re: [HTCondor-users] job preemption with partitionable slots

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/24/23 18:02, R Tapia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a user, foo, with a lot of non-urgent work. I would like other 
> jobs to be able to preempt the user's jobs, but only after the user's 
> jobs have run for at least three hours. That way, the jobs can make a 
> bit of progress and checkpoint before being preempted. 


Hi Ron:

Just to follow up on our conversation, there are many ways to do this, 
based on your requirements, but perhaps the best is to set a 
job-specific MaxJobRetirementTime in the startd, and have the defrag 
daemon periodically drain machines.

-greg