[Condor-users] quick question: is periodic vacate possible

["Smith, Ian" <I.C.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Just a very quick question that I can't seem to find an answer for
anywhere:

Is it possible to periodically vacate jobs in the same way as
they can be periodically held and removed ?

The reason I ask is that I've been building checkpointing
into some of our vanilla universe jobs and it would
be useful if these could be vacated say once every
few hours so that the checkpoint file get stored in
the $(SPOOL). Some of the jobs can run for days
and with few students around the campus at present
they are unlikely to get evicted by user logins. This
means that the output can get lost if the startd 
crashes for some reason*, loosing several days
work.

regards,

-ian.

* I've noticed several connection failures with long running jobs 
  and I'm still not sure of the reason although someone turning
  off an execute host running a job is obviously one !

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Dr Ian C. Smith,
Advanced Research Computing (e-Science) Team,
The University of Liverpool
Computing Services Department