Am 29.11.2011 um 17:37 schrieb baf035:

> Hello Reuti,
> 
> thanks for a clarification, I probably misunderstand man pages and used both 
> parameters: s_rt and -notify together before.
> 
> Our goal is to configure exactly working backfilling. We use for s_rt a mean 
> value of running time of finished jobs based on their category.
> In a queue configuration is a big value for notify time.
> 
> When s_rt is expired, job is signaled but not killed thanks to notify time. 
> We receive an information in execd messages file:
> "11/29/2011 11:11:28|  main|service65|W|job 112756.1 exceeded soft wallclock 
> time - initiate soft notify method"
> The job is correctly finished.
> This is valid for the single core job  or for the parallel job running only 
> inside 1 node.
> I case of bigger parallel jobs they are killed directly after s_rt 
> expiration. It seems that GE considers s_rt as h_rt ?!  
> execd messages (master node):
> "11/29/2011 14:06:33|  main|n15|W|job 112781.1 exceeded hard wallclock time - 
> initiate terminate method"

Do you trap the warning signal in all ranks? If you have only one node, there 
will be threads used. But on the slave nodes, a new process is created, which 
must  ignore the signal.

-- Reuti


> qmaster messages
> "11/29/2011 14:06:34|worker|sged3|E|master task of job 112781.1 failed - 
> killing job
> 11/29/2011 14:06:35|worker|ged3|W|job 112781.1 failed on host n15 assumedly 
> after job because: job 112781.1 died through signal KILL (9)"
> 
> execd strace:
> "17649 open("/<path>/sge_spool//n15/messages", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 
> 0666) = 5
> 17649 write(5, "11/29/2011 14:06:33|  main|r8i1n"..., 107) = 107
> 17649 close(5)                          = 0
> 17649 kill(2152, SIGTSTP)               = 0
> 17649 futex(0x7f705cd06e04, 0x189 /* FUTEX_??? */, 4655823, {1322571994, 
> 846698000}, ffffffff <unfinished ...>
> 17650 <... futex resumed> )             = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> 17650 futex(0x7f705cd068f0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> 17650 futex(0x7f705cd06954, 0x189 /* FUTEX_??? */, 4332213, {1322571994, 
> 891528000}, ffffffff <unfinished ...>
> 17653 <... futex resumed> )             = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> 17653 futex(0x7f705cd07100, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
> 17653 futex(0x7f705cd07164, 0x189 /* FUTEX_??? */, 4440135, {1322571995, 
> 703424000}, ffffffff <unfinished ...>
> 17649 <... futex resumed> )             = ? ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (To be 
> restarted)
> 17649 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> 17649 rt_sigreturn(0x11)                = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)"
> 
> Do you have an idea what could be wrong? 
> 
> Thanks
> Best regards
> 
> baf035
>  
> 
>   
> 
> Dne 22. listopadu 2011 16:16 Reuti <[email protected]> napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> Am 22.11.2011 um 12:58 schrieb baf035:
> 
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> > 1) When s_rt time is reached a job is signaled by default by SIGUSR1. One 
> > of our applications is dying by the signal.
> > I changed in a global configuration in execd_params a parameter 
> > NOTIFY_KILL=none or NOTIFY_KILL=SIGCONT
> > bur without effect. Applications are still signaled by SIGUSR1. How could I 
> > change the behavior?
> 
> these are two different things.
> 
> a) when you defined s_rt, it will send SIGUSR1 at the specified time - there 
> is no way to avoid this. If you don't want it, don't define s_rt.
> 
> b) the notification by -notify will be send the specified time before the 
> final kill/suspend. These notifications can be redefined by the commands you 
> used. If you don't want it, don't use -notify at submission time.
> 
> NB: The signal will be send to the complete processgroup, i.e. the job script 
> and the called binary. If you want to have an action happening on SIGUSR1, 
> you need a proper set "trap" for the shell and/or a proper signal handling in 
> the binary. The default action for SIGUSR1 is to terminate: 
> http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/signal.7.html So you just 
> face the default behavior.
> 
> 
> > 2) Is the way how to reduce warning messages "job <JID>.1should have 
> > finished since <num> s" in a qmaster messages file
> > when s_rt time is exceeded and a notify time is going on.
> 
> Not that I'm aware of. But using s_rt and -notify at the same time doesn't 
> work in a nice way together is my experience. I suggest to use only one of 
> them at a time. Do you have a 2 stage warning in mind, which you want to 
> implement? Using both the signal chain would be: 1) s_rt (sigusr1) warning, 
> 2) -notify defined warning before kill, 3) kill
> 
> -- Reuti
> 
> 
> > Our productive GE is SoGE 8.0.0a.
> >
> > Thanks for help. Best regards
> >
> > baf035
> >
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