[Mauiusers] Re: How to configure some limits

[csamuel at vpac.org]

----- "Rob Lines" <rlinesseagate at gmail.com> wrote:

> For us on our old clusters we had a limit that no one person could
> have more than 90% of the job slots used. This allowed us to have
> people submit thousands of jobs in a batch and let them go but still
> left a number of slots for other people to run jobs.

The parameters you're looking for are going to be things like:

MAXJOB - max number of jobs a user can have running
MAXIJOB - max number of jobs a user can have eligible to run (stops queue stuffing)
MAXPROC - maximum number of processors a user can use over all jobs

Best of luck!
Chris
-- 
Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager
 The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
 P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency