Re: [Condor-users] Automate removal of inefficient jobs

[Burt Holzman <burt@xxxxxxxx>]

Ian Chesal wrote:
> > I did a plain 'condor_reconfig' when I was testing yesterday. Today I
> > tried condor_reconfig -full -schedd, with the same result.
> >
> > Adding PERIODIC_REMOVE to the job submission script did work. I'd
> > rather use SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE because these jobs are submitted
> > through globus gatekeeper, so if I want to add things to the submission
> > scripts I have to patch that. I'll tinker with the SYTEM_ version some
> > more, and if that continues to not work I'll bite the bullet and patch
> > globus.
> Occasionally you'll encounter settings in Condor that require a restart 
> to take effect. I didn't think this was one of them, but perhaps. Try:
>
> condor_restart -fast -schedd
>
> Brute force, but it should take after that. You can confirm the 
> scheduler is seeing the setting with:
>
> condor_config_val -verbose -schedd SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE

Hi,

It's actually the condor_shadow that enforces SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE. 
If you don't have a lot of shadows, you can send them all SIGHUP and 
they should re-read their configuration files.  Restarting the schedd 
also works, since all the shadows will die with it and be restarted.

- B

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