[Swift-devel] swift changing walltime of prews-gram jobs

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:13 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> > This combination seems to still get the walltime from the Globus profile
> > options, but it seems to be putting the time estimate in the seconds portion
> > of the PBS request instead of the minutes, so my jobs are dying on wall-time
> > exceed (from pbs) (4 jobs, needing 30-60 seconds each).
> 
> You should not be seeing the walltime from tc.data level jobs being passed 
> through to coaster worker jobs. Coaster worker jobs should be getting a 
> different maxwalltime, as documented in previous emails, being some 
> multiple plus a constant of a normal job's maxwalltime.
> 
> Based on previous emails from Allan, I'm suspicious about provider-pbs 
> passing through things correctly (its been a bugridden piece of shit when 
> I've tried to use it).

Yep. It was a quick hack. Scalable, but still a hack.

> 
> I'll get round to looking at that in the next few days, most likely.
> 
> Until then, the least mysterious path is probably to stick with 
> gt2:gt2:pbs as your coaster jobmanager of choice.
>