[Condor-users] 6.6.10 equivalent for STARTD_VM_EXPRS?

["Little, Colin E" <ColinLittle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to enforce a policy on my pool that machines try to avoid running more than one job at a time.  Copying the system explained in the "Bologna Batch System" paper it looked like I could do this using STARTD_VM_EXPRS = State and the vm1_State, vm2_State, etc. variables. Sadly it seems that this only works in 6.7, and we're stuck with 6.6.10 for now. Does anyone know of a hack to get around this until 6.8 is released?  I'd really like to be able to make it so that two jobs submitted at the same time don't both end up on the same server when there are others available.

 

Thanks a lot

-Colin Little