Re: [Condor-users] Interrupt job on execute node

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/02/2012 10:11 AM, Tomáš Nechutný wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to setup Condor in my company for running tests consisting of
> multiple applications (via DAGMan). I'd like to setup Condor execute
> nodes on computers of our employees. Some jobs in graph could possibly
> take hour to complete. If and employee returns from lunch early he would
> not be able to use his computer. Can kbdd daemon interrupt running job
> so it can be started elsewhere?
>
> Thank you.

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.6/3_5Policy_Configuration.html

Setup a policy where WANT_SUSPEND becomes FALSE and PREEMPT becomes 
TRUE. Base it off KeyboardIdle, which the KBDD will keep current, and 
you'll have jobs getting kicked off user machines.

Be warned, this will produce what's called "badput" because if a job is 
59 minutes into its 60 minute run the 59 minutes of work will be thrown 
away when the job restarts on another machine. To give a job a little 
more time (favor job over machine user), look into WANT_VACATE and 
RETIREMENTTIME options.

The default UWCS policies in /etc/condor/condor_config are reasonable 
examples of how to do this.

Best,


matt