Redhat and the likes have a utility called 'tmpwatch' On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Rahul Nabar <rpna...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote: >> Am 20.08.2010 um 22:40 schrieb Rahul Nabar: > > Thanks Jon and Reuti! > >> are you using any queuing system? I try to get all applications set up in >> such a way, that they write all their stuff to $TMPDIR. It's in [OS]GE and I >> think also in Torque for some time now, to be created automatically (as job >> specific directory on a node) and removed after the job. > > Yes. I'm using Torque. That's an interesting feature! I'll check it > out. I guess one other option is to put an epilogue that does rm -fr > /tmp/* > > Do you use a HDD temp or a tmpfs in RAM? > >> >> A load sensor which checks the space on a node in /scratch and put the queue >> instance into alarm state, if it falls under a certain value, can in >> addition prevent a black hole in the cluster, where one after the other job >> crashes due to missing scratch space. >> > > That seems neat too! But I am not sure if torque can do an alarm state > on a queue too that way. > > -- > Rahul > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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