Why is my job in hold state?

A: Use the condor_q command to find out the hold reason.

condor_q <job_ID> -af HoldReason

Example: A hold reason = „… Job has gone over memory limit …“.

To solve this problem edit your jobs with commands condor_qedit and condor_release or remove your jobs, fix the submit file and resubmit.

# list held jobs
condor_q -hold -wide
# or
condor_q <username> -constrain "JobStatus == 5" -af ClusterId ProcId

# change memory requirements to 5GB for all held jobs
condor_qedit -constraint 'JobStatus =?= 5' RequestMemory=5120

# release all held jobs
condor_release -constraint 'JobStatus =?= 5'