task timeouts vs frame timeouts

[LaszloSebo]

Currently deadline has a per task timeout, which makes it tricky to manage grouping post submission.

If i set the task timeout at submission to 15 mins, and send the job with 1 frame = 1 task, it will have a timeout of 15 mins for each frame.
If i later then group the frames to be in packs of 20, now a single frame has a timeout of 0.75 mins…

Would it not be better to have a frame timeout, and the task timeout would be calculated based on the frame number in a specific task?

[rrussell]

Maybe we should support both options? A task timeout might still be preferred for a simulation job that has a single task consisting of hundreds or thousands of frames.

Cheers,

• Ryan

[LaszloSebo]

Yeah makes sense!

[rrussell]

Cool. We’ve added this to the wishlist targeting 6.2.