Prologue and epilogue scripts time out
TORQUE takes preventative measures against prologue and epilogue scripts by placing an alarm around the scripts execution. By default, TORQUE sets the alarm to go off after 5 minutes of execution. If the script exceeds this time, it will be terminated and the node will be marked down. This timeout can be adjusted by setting the $prologalarm parameter in the mom_priv/config file.
While TORQUE is executing the epilogue, epilogue.user, or epilogue.precancel scripts, the job will be in the E (exiting) state.
If an epilogue.parallel script cannot open the .OU or .ER files, an error is logged but the script is continued.
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