On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Antun Balaz wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using torque/maui combination. So if poweroff is imminent, can I apply
> the following procedure:
>
> [say we have only one queue (thequeue), and one running job in it (with job
> ID equals JOBID)]
>
> CE:
> qdisable thequeue
> mjobctl -R JOBID
>
> All nodes:
> restart (including poweroff)
>
> CE:
> qenable thequeue
>
> Will the job JOBID survive and start execution again from the beginning, and
> will the user be able to fetch the output using edg-job-get-output once tha
> job is completed?
Do _not_ enable such functionality: many VOs explicitly set the RB resubmission
count to zero because they _cannot_ handle a job possibly getting run twice.
For them it is better to have the jobs fail.
Power cuts are a fact of life, do not worry too much about them.
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