[gridengine users] how to put a sleep before every job?

[Reuti]

Am 28.02.2012 um 12:35 schrieb William Hay:

> On 28 February 2012 11:02, Stefano Bridi <stefano.bridi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi list, I have a problem on a SGE setup where the home directory are
>> shared trough glusterfs and some job failed to start because of a
>> latency on the filesystem propagation between the login node and the
>> compute node.
>> What happen is that a script create a workdir with some support files,
>> "cd" inside and then qsub a script, sometime the script start to run
>> on the compute node too quickly and the "workdir" is not  yet visible
>> on that node. I know it is a glusterfs problem that must be resolved
>> elsewhere but in the meantime, where can I put a "sleep"?
>> Does exist a prerun hook that I can use for that? For other use
>> (copying files around and cleanup) does exist a similar postrun hook?
>> 
> Had another thought.
> Set up a load sensor for a >= complex that reports the current time
> (seconds since 1970). Add a request to the qsub (via jsv if you don't
> want to make the submission process more complex)
> for that complex with a value greater than now+fudge factor.

The idea with the set time is good, but maybe it can be done without a load sensor:

Set -a <date/time> in the qsub submission for the starttime, either in the script or as suggested in an JSV.

-- Reuti


> William
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