universe       = vanilla

./test.sh < test.data > test.out 2> test.error

$ condor_submit test.job

$ condor_q

$ condor_status

$ condor_rm 43

$ condor_history

$ condor_history -long 3805
ResidentSetSize = 0
ResidentSetSize_RAW = 0
RemoteUserCpu = 0.0
RecentBlockWrites = 0
RecentBlockReadKbytes = 36
JobCurrentStartExecutingDate = 1498649218
...

Specify CPU and memory requirements

Unlike the old PBS nodes, on which jobs were free to grab whatever resources they liked (to the detriment of both themselves and other jobs on the node), the Condor compute nodes are configured to use cgroups which will restrict a job's resource usage to those resources requested. By default, all Condor jobs are allocated a single CPU and 1 GiB memory. You can adjust these values by adding request_cpus and request_memory statements to your job submit description file:

request_cpus = 2
request_memory = 4 GB

Requesting significantly more CPUs or memory than usual may mean that your job has to wait longer before sufficient resources can be allocated to run it. On the other hand, specifying a lower memory requirement may allow jobs to squeeze in to otherwise heavily-loaded nodes.

Further information can be found in the Commands for Matchmaking section of the Condor documentation:

• condor_submit

Submit a job with additional requirements

You can exert more control over where a job runs by including a requirements specification in your job submit description file. This allows you to specify values for various Condor ClassAds, combined with C-style boolean operators. For example, to specify that your job should run on a Scientific Linux 6 machine:

requirements = OpSysAndVer == "SL6"

You can obtain a list of ClassAds and their values on a given node by running the following command:

condor_status -startd HOSTNAME

For example, to obtain the list of ClassAds from node005:

condor_status -startd node005.ppe.gla.ac.uk

Further information can be found in the Commands for Matchmaking section of the Condor documentation:

• condor_submit