Re: [Queue-developers] [Fwd: [queue - Open Discussion] New Features]

[Henry T. <cc...@uc...>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, W. G. Krebs wrote:

> This was posted to one of the Queue message Forums on Sourceforge....
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> Perhaps users would like to share their thoughts in response, either
> here or on Sourceforge?
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> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:34:38 -0700
> From: no...@so...
> To: no...@so...
> Subject: [queue - Open Discussion] New Features
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> By: prensing
> 
> I am currently using Condor as a batch system, but find Gnu Queue an
> interesting alternative. However, there are clearly some things missing.
> 
> The biggest thing is a set of user commands to monitor jobs. I started writing
> a little script (in Python, since I want to experiment with that language),
> but have not gotten very far.
> 
> Does anyone have a set of scripts for monitoring, adding, deleting, etc.? What 
> do people think is needed?

I was about to ask this question myself: I think this is a brilliant idea,
and necessary if our site, for one, is to use queue as a batch system, as I
would like to. I would like to contribute something along these lines myself,
but I don't understand enough about how to get at queue's information about the
jobs. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I haven't found any way (apart from
standard unix tools such as ps) to find out what is going on once you've
submitted some jobs.

Off the top of my head, useful functions would be:

List status of own jobs (user account)
List status of all jobs (priviliged account)
add own job to a queue (user account)
delete own job from a queue (user account)
delete any job from a queue (priviliged account)
move any job up/down the queue (priviliged account)

It would also be good if there was some priority measure which (for instance)
discriminated in favour of jobs that have been waiting a long time, and against
jobs from a user who already has a lot of jobs queued. It's unclear to me
whether queue has this sort of facility.

cheers
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