Re: [Condor-users] Disabling the restarting of jobs

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Robert E. Parrott wrote:

> We have a certain set of users whose parallel code is fairly strict
> in the way it names and manages files. They are looking for an option
> to disable the restarting of jobs after the jobs have been damaged
> (for example by an OOM condition on a node), because a restarted job
> will otherwise overwrite the partial, and still usable, data files.
>
> Is there a submit file expression, of a config expression, with a
> boolean to be added to the config file, that would put all jobs that
> would otherwise restart into a "hold" state?
>
> As a secondary question, would there be a way to update the
> "HoldReason" classad expression with something relevant?


Adding this to your submit file will put the job on hold if it doesn't  
exit with status 0:
on_exit_hold = ExitCode =!= 0

You can also prevent the jobs from rerunning if accidentally released  
like so:
requirements = NumJobStarts  =?= 0 || NumJobStarts =?= Undefined
periodic_hold = NumJobStarts > 0 && JobStatus == 1

Thanks and regards,
Jaime Frey
UW-Madison Condor Team