[Swift-devel] Swift run: hanging up when submitting a job

[Ben Clifford]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> The other solution is to put a cap on the process duration. So if the
> job has a walltime spec, consider notifications lost if the job doesn't
> complete in walltime + some_margin_of_error.

I think that is probably a good thing to do. Either consider the job 
failed if the walltime + margin passes or some polling such as poa single 
time when walltime+margin has passed.

Margin can be pretty big (on the order of minutes), I think.