[HTCondor-users] [HTCondor-Users] Queries related to classADs

[Vikrant Aggarwal <ervikrant06@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Condor Experts,

I have doubts regarding the usage of class ads after reading [1]

- Three type of nodes are present in HTCondor setup 1) Submitter 2) Master 3) Worker node. For job matching job and worker machine classads are used.

Taking an example to express my confusion here:

- While setting up a basic preemption policy referring [2] I came up with following conf (which is not working for me). I was not sure on which node I should create this file hence I created on all nodes. I haven't used "$" to evaulate "EnteredCurrentStatus", CurrentWallTime I believe it's automatic picking the value for it however for SUBMIT_EXPR while adding CurrentWallTime in it I referred the existing value of variable as $(SUBMIT_ATTRS). I refer this _expression_ from existing working configuration, I can't get when we refer the variable using $ and when not.

$ cat /etc/condor/config.d/50-vaggarwal
CLAIM_WORKLIFE = 0
MAXJOBRETIREMENTTIME = 0
CurrentWallTime = ifthenelse(JobStatus==2,CurrentTime-EnteredCurrentStatus,0)
SUBMIT_ATTRS = $(SUBMIT_ATTRS) CurrentWallTime
ALLOW_PSLOT_PREEMPTION = True
PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS = True
NEGOTIATOR_CONSIDER_PREEMPTION = True
RANK = 0.0
PREEMPTION_RANK = $(CurrentWallTime)

- As per guide [1], if I am putting the same above configuration on master node this should not work because I am referring CurrentWallTime from job Class Ad hence I appended PREEMPTION_RANK with TARGET to get the value of CurrentWallTime from job classad (unfortunately this also doesn't help me with pre-emption scenario). is this a right approach? if yes, then should I do the same on worker node also or the job is running on worker node hence it should be automatically able to pick the value of CurrentWallTime without referring it using TARGET?

CLAIM_WORKLIFE = 0
MAXJOBRETIREMENTTIME = 0
CurrentWallTime = ifthenelse(JobStatus==2,CurrentTime-EnteredCurrentStatus,0)
SUBMIT_ATTRS = $(SUBMIT_ATTRS) CurrentWallTime
ALLOW_PSLOT_PREEMPTION = True
PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS = True
NEGOTIATOR_CONSIDER_PREEMPTION = True
RANK = 0.0
PREEMPTION_RANK = TARGET.CurrentWallTime

- Don't we have any way to refer the classad types of other services like schedd, negotiator in the Machine or job classADs?


[1] https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v8.5/4_1HTCondor_s_ClassAd.html#SECTION00511100000000000000
[2] http://erikerlandson.github.io/blog/2012/07/19/lifo-and-fifo-preemption-policies-for-a-condor-pool/

Thanks & Regards,

Vikrant Aggarwal