Re: [HTCondor-users] Submit Requirements and condor_qedit

[Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Joan Piles <jpiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We are thinking about using the new submit requirement features (now we use "START" conditions in execution nodes to enforce policies), and we wonder what would happen if we try something like this:
> 
>> SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT_NAMES=$(SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT_NAMES),MAXMEM
>> SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT_MAXMEM=TARGET.RequestMemory < 8192
>> SUBMIT_REQUIREMENT_MAXMEM_REASON="The memory requested exceeds the maximum"
> 
> and then a user submits a job requesting 4Gb of RAM, and before it starts running runs:
> 
>> condor_qedit 12345 RequestMemory 10240
> 
> Would that be allowed? And if so... should it?

Yes, it would be allowed - SUBMIT_REQUIREMENTS only covers the job at submit time.

There is a patch for allowing admins to specify attributes that cannot be changed by users:

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=5065

That would somewhat help here.

Ahem, Todd - any updates on the code review?  :)

Brian