Re: [HTCondor-users] Excluding execute nodes after multiple job failures

[Jason Patton <jpatton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Duncan,

Does this htcondor wiki article help?

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=AvoidingBlackHoles

Jason

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Duncan Meacher <duncan.meacher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just wondering if there is any way of excluding nodes from the pool of
> available nodes if a certain number of submitted jobs have failed on the
> node within a given time. This is something I've experienced a few times,
> either due to a node missing some packages, or an issue with the node etc.
> In these cases, jobs submitted to the offending node will fail, and then
> immediately  be re-submitted to the same node. This can easily results in a
> larger number of jobs being marked as failed after using all the retrys.
>
> Thanks, Duncan
>
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