Re: [Condor-users] Maximum number of retries per job?

["Peter F. Couvares" <pfc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Angel de Vicente wrote:
> > periodic_remove = NumRestarts > 10
>
> 1. could it be possible then to automatically add this to every user's 
> job
>    description?

One kludgey-but-effective way to do this now is via a condor_submit 
wrapper which adds a "-a periodic_remove = NumRestarts > 10" argument 
to submits.

But we're working on a SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE config expression which 
will allow the administrator to set a schedd-wide policy independent 
from that which the users set in their personal periodic_remove.  It 
should be in an upcoming 6.7 series release (probably 6.7.3), but no 
promises.

> 2. I wouldn't want to kill a standard universe job that has restarted 
> more than
>    10 times. Is there a way to differentiate between restarts in the 
> vanilla
>    universe and restarts in the standard universe?

The universe of a job is advertised in its "Universe" attribute.  Just 
add that the the periodic_remove expression so it only becomes true for 
the job universes you want.

-Peter

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