Newbie question: timeout flag

[rimorob]

This is probably a user error, but I can't get my script to run with the timeout flag. I set up:
register_dopar_cmq(n_jobs=self$nCores, memory=1024,
fail_on_error=FALSE, timeout=Self$walltime)
And the template says:
#SBATCH --time={{ timeout }}

And then I get this error:
Error in fill_template(private$template, opts, required = c("master", :
Template values required but not provided: timeout
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)

What am I doing wrong?

[mschubert]

It seems you created a custom template with a {{ timeout }} field that does not have a default value.

So, in order to be able to submit the job we need to fill this field. However, the timeout parameter to Q does something different (it is the time when we will assume a worker to be dead if we haven't heard from it) and it is not passed to your template.

So to solve this, you can pass it as a template argument:

Q(..., template=list(timeout=...))
register_dopar_cmq(..., template=list(timeout=...))

[rimorob]

That was it, thanks!