Re: [Condor-users] Preempting a job after 48 hours

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 9, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Ian Chesal wrote:

> > If I was wanting to have a hard limit on the length of time that a job
> > can run and set that to 48 hours how would I do that?
> >
> > I know I can set MaxJobRetirementTime to some releatively small time,
> > say 72 hours, but I am guessing that I need to set some sort of
> preempt
> > expression that is time based.
> >
> > Anyone have a recipe for doing this? ie putting a hard time limit on
> all
> > jobs on the cluster of some specific time?
>
> See the periodic_remove submit command:
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/condor_submit.html#53487
>
> You can use that to kill a job that's run longer than you want.


Using periodic_remove is fine if you control the job submissions.  If, 
instead, you want to enforce it from the startd side, you can set your 
PREEMPT expression to fire after some amount of time.  Example:

MaxWallTime = 3600 * 24 * 3
PREEMPT = (State == "Claimed") && $(ActivationTimer) > $(MaxWallTime)

--Dan