But you can change the time limit at runtime with "scontrol update job ...". Therefore an environment variable can have an outdated value.
> There's an outstanding feature request for that: > > https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8383 > > While waiting on that, we've taken to injecting it into the job's environment > ourselves in the Lua submit filter. > > --Troy > > ???On 7/27/20, 12:45 PM, "slurm-users on behalf of Brian Andrus" > <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com on behalf of toomuc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > All, > > Trying to see the best way to identify the time limit of a job from > within the job. > I had hoped it was one of the SLURM variables, but apparently not. > > Is there an easy way outside doing an 'squeue' or 'scontrol' call from > the job to find out the max time of itself? > ...
