On 07/27/2011 10:13 AM, Reuti wrote: > Am 27.07.2011 um 16:01 schrieb Prentice Bisbal: > >> Every once in a while, I get a user that asks me to change the wallclock >> time (h_rt) for a running job. After looking at the man pages for qmod >> and qalter, it appears that this is not possible. >> >> Can someone on this list confirm that? > > Yes, it's true, >
Thanks for the quick confirmation. > >> Is there another command I should >> be looking at? > > In cases where this must be done, the sgeexecd on the node can be killed *or* > stopped with the option -softstop *DON'T* stop it in the ususal way, as it > would also kill the jobs, i.e. the sgeshepherd. > > And don't restart it until the job in question finished. On restart sgeexecd > will scan for leftover jobs and checks the limits. > > -- Reuti > Thanks for the tip. While that can be a lifesaver, I don't think that's a road I want to go down, once I do it to save a job for one user, I'm sure it'll just be a matter of time before more and more requests to do that come in... -- Prentice _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
