Maintain to mark failed jobs and queue reservations¶
We recommend that all users periodically run the maintain command from the LaunchPad. This will detect failed jobs and queue reservations - for details, refer to the failures tutorial and queue reservation tutorial. In summary, the command will mark the state of failed jobs as FIZZLED and will move any long-waiting RESERVED FireWorks back to READY. The maintenance command can be run using:
lpad admin maintain
If you would like to run maintenance in an infinite loop, you can use:
lpad admin maintain --infinite --maintain_interval 6000
This formulation will run a maintenance job every 6000 seconds (100 minutes).