Re: [Condor-users] periodic expressions

["Thomas Materna" <materna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

I forgot to mention: What I gave you in my previous email was found in
somebody else's submit file, I never tested it myself, so I'm not sure it
works ;-)

Thomas

> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to limit the run-time of a job so that the job 
> gets restarted 
> > when it runs longer than a specified time. I thought about using a 
> > periodic_* expression in the submit file to do this, but 
> I'm not sure 
> > what would be the simplest way:
> > 
> > To restart the job I have to use both hold and release expressions, 
> > but how can I constrain them together to run the release after the 
> > hold took place?
> > 
> > I thought about something like this for the hold:
> > 
> > periodic_hold = (JobStatus == 2 &&
> > ((ServerTime-JobCurrentStartDate) > 15000))
> > 
> > But how to do the release? Any help is much appreciated!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Szabolcs
> 
> Hi Szabolcs,
> 
> You can try somtehing siniliar to your periodic_hold expression:
> periodic_release = ((JobStatus==5) && (CurentTime - 
> EnteredCurrentStatus) >
> 30)
> Which would release your job after holding it for 30s in this case.
> 
> Thomas
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