[Condor-users] Using a machine ad value in a deferral_time line?

["Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have, on every machine in my pool, an integer attribute pair that
defines a "preemption window":

	ALTERA_EARLY_PREEMPTION_TIME = 300

I'd like some of my jobs to wait for this preemption window to close
before they start actually doing any work. The deferral_time setting in
a submit ticket looks like a nice, generic way to pause the start of a
job until the premption window closes. I could just add:

	deferral_time = (CurrentTime + 300)

But I like to use the attributes whenever possible. Assuming I'm
advertising ALTERA_EARLY_PREEMPTION_TIME in the machine's classad by
adding it to STARTD_EXPRS, can I use TARGET in this setting to reference
the machine's ALTERA_EARLY_PREEMPTION_TIME value? So:

	deferral_time = (CurrentTime +
TARGET.ALTERA_EARLY_PREEMPTION_TIME + 1)

- Ian


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