Re: [Condor-users] Retirement Clarification

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

matthew hope wrote:

> Since in other areas preemption due to rank and preemption due to user
> priority are handled differently (i.e. one you can't stop and one you
> can) I wanted to confirm that:
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_6Startd_Policy.html
>
> "Retiring 
> When an active claim is about to be preempted **for any reason**, it
> enters retirement, while it waits for the current job to finish. The
> MaxJobRetirementTime expression determines how long to wait (counting
> since the time the job started). Once the job finishes or the
> retirement time expires, the Preempting state is entered. "
>
> (my emphasis)
> Means that both the rank and priority reasons for preemption respect
> max retirement time as was my understanding.

That is correct.  The retirement policy is a solemn promise made by the 
startd that, whatever may happen, the startd will not kill the job for 
the specified amount of time, unless the job ClassAd itself specifies a 
smaller amount of time.

--Dan