Re: [HTCondor-users] File last modification time or job last write() attribute?

[Michael V Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: MIRON LIVNY <miron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/26/2016 02:30 AM

> Thank you student. 
> 
> OK. This is what I expected to hear. So, what is the expected run
time of 
> these applications and what is the expected frequency of progress
reports.
> Also, do you know the file name where these reports are written?

The name of the progress file can be derived from
aspects of the job
submission script. I've written a hook that works
as expected, where you
invoke the hook and IO proxy, and set an attribute
for the file
name, and it populates the CheckfileLastModifiedTime
attribute with the
"mtime" timestamp of that file at 8 seconds
and every five minutes.

I figured it would be best to keep this aspect of
it very simple and
straightforward, and leave the policy-making to the
submit description.

The five-minute interval of the update_job_info hook
is good enough
resolution to update the value for my purposes, as
we'd be looking to
take action only when the age started heading up to
an hour or so
at this point.

A hold _expression_ would need to be written carefully
in order to account
for the possibility of a suspended job - you wouldn't
want to trigger
a hold of the job was suspended for a few hours the
moment the job
is unsuspended. Maybe something referencing LastSuspensionTime?

        -Michael Pelletier.
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