[torqueusers] Job dependency problem

[Troy Baer]

Hello all,

A summer intern and I have been working on a tool to automate generating
graph-based job dependency chains (a la condor_submit_dag), and we've
run into an interesting problem where setting a dependency sometimes
doesn't seem to have any effect:
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$ qstat -r

verne.nics.utk.edu: 
                                                                         Req'd  Req'd   Elap
Job ID               Username Queue    Jobname          SessID NDS   TSK Memory Time  S Time
-------------------- -------- -------- ---------------- ------ ----- --- ------ ----- - -----
2879.verne.nics.     troy     analysis postproc_hr6      13058     1  --    --  01:00 R   -- 
2880.verne.nics.     troy     hpss     archive           14980   --   --    --  01:00 R   -- 

$ qstat -f 2879 2880
Job Id: 2879.verne.nics.utk.edu
...
    depend = afterok:2874.verne.nics.utk.edu at verne.nics.utk.edu,
        beforeok:2880.verne.nics.utk.edu at verne.nics.utk.edu
...
    submit_args = -N postproc_hr6 -W depend=afterok:2874.verne.nics.utk.edu -v
         day=20090531,hr=0600 postproc.pbs
...

Job Id: 2880.verne.nics.utk.edu
...
    depend = afterok:2875.verne.nics.utk.edu at verne.nics.utk.edu:2876.verne.nic
        s.utk.edu at verne.nics.utk.edu:2877.verne.nics.utk.edu at verne.nics.utk.ed
        u:2878.verne.nics.utk.edu at verne.nics.utk.edu
...
    submit_args = -N archive -W depend=afterok:2875.verne.nics.utk.edu:2876.ve
        rne.nics.utk.edu:2877.verne.nics.utk.edu:2878.verne.nics.utk.edu:2879.
        verne.nics.utk.edu -v day=20090531 archive.pbs
...
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Jobid 2880 was submitted with an afterok dependency on 2879 (among other
things), but that has somehow been translated into 2879 having a
beforeok dependency on 2880 that wasn't in the original submission and
doesn't seem to have any effect.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Thanks,
	--Troy
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Troy Baer, HPC System Administrator
National Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/
Phone:  865-241-4233