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

[Dave Love]

Stefano Bridi <stefano.bridi at gmail.com> writes:

> 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"?

Why can't it go in the script that submits the job (backgrounded if
necessary)?