<div>Do it in /etc/security/limits.conf for higher values. Some how they do not work.</div>
<div>One more thing we have noticed is that pbs_mom does not inherit limits when it starts at system boot. A restart of pbs_mom does the job.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Tony Schreiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schreian@bc.edu">schreian@bc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Somebody else alos offered this off-list. I have tried that but<br>without success so far.<br><br>The existing script has a ulimit -n 32768 which does seem to be<br>
overriding the default value, but when I put either ulimit -d 63000000<br>or ulimit -m 63000000, neither one of those values seems to be in<br>effect in the pbs session when I connect, both remain unlimited.<br>
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<div class="h5"><br>On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Jerry Smith wrote:<br><br>> Tony,<br>><br>> Put the ulimit command in your init script for the mom, and the mom<br>> will inherit those limits.<br>><br>> --Jerry<br>
><br>> Tony Schreiner wrote:<br>>> Torque 2.1.10, cluster consists of nodes with 64 GB or RAM,<br>>> running Fedora 10.<br>>><br>>> There is a job that a user is running recently, that dynamically<br>
>> allocates increasing memory over time until all the memory on the<br>>> node is taken. I haven't talked to the developer, but I don't<br>>> think it's a bug (at least inadvertently). But anyway, at that<br>
>> point the node becomes totally unresponsive to Torque or to ssh.<br>>><br>>> I thought I would set the max data size in /etc/security/<br>>> limits.conf to 64000000 kb or just below the physical size.<br>
>><br>>> This is effective for ssh logins, but torque connections don't seem<br>>> to honor it. If I do an interactive job on the node and run ulimit<br>>> -d it shows "unlimited". I've rebooted for good measure.<br>
>><br>>> Do I have other options here?<br>>><br>>> Thanks<br>>> Tony Schreiner<br>>> Boston College<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> torqueusers mailing list<br>
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