Re: [HTCondor-users] Is it possible to immediately suspend jobs of a DAGman job?

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/5/19 4:03 AM, hufh wrote:
> In my case, there are quite different resource requirements for jobs. 
> For example, job A is followed by job B, A needs 8GB memory 1 slot, 
> but B only needs 1GB 1 slot. If the resource can't be immediately 
> reclaimed after finishing A, mostly likely 8GB 1slot will be assigned 
> to run B. This will lead to waste of memory. Thus i want condor to 
> reclaim resource immediately. Does it make sense to set 
> keep_claim_idle to zero? Thanks.
>
> hufh


Sure -- if you like, you can disable this behavior in dagman by setting


DAGMAN_HOLD_CLAIM_TIME = 0


-greg