Re: [HTCondor-users] Preventing users from submitting too many jobs

["Miron Livny <miron@xxxxxxxxxxx>" <miron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vlad,

What motivates this requirement to limit the number of jobs, is it the 
resources consumed by the queued jobs?

Miron



On 5/27/2015 8:30 AM, Vladimir Brik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to have a mechanism to prevent a user from submitting new
> jobs if he or she already has a large number of jobs in the queue (e.g.
>  >20,000).
>
> SUBMIT_MAX_PROCS_IN_CLUSTER and MAX_JOBS_SUBMITTED help, but don't solve
> the problem completely because they are global limits, and I'd like to
> have per-user limits.
>
> What I am thinking of doing is replacing condor_submit with a wrapper
> that runs condor_q to check if the user submitted too many jobs, and if
> so, drops a config file with appropriate SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT_* to block
> the user from submitting more. The wrapper would be clever enough to
> skip condor_q if its called too frequently.
>
> Does anybody know of a simpler way to have per-user limits on the number
> of jobs in queue?
>
> Is there a way to do something similar for jobs submitted using python
> bindings and/or remote submissions?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vlad
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