On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 05:14:13PM -0400, Steve Crusan wrote: > If the issue is processes that run for far too long, and are abusing > the system, cgroups or 'pushing' the users to use a batch system seems > to work better than writing scripts to make decisions on killing > processes.
What I saw work well was nicing the process after a certain time, including an email, and then killing and emailing after a longer time. The emails can push the batch alternative. Users generally don't become angry if the limits are enforced by a script; they can only be surprised once, and that first time is just nicing the process. If they have a hard time predicting runtime (a common issue, especially for non-hardcore supercomputing types), it's not like they _intentionally_ are exceeding the limits... -- greg _______________________________________________ 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
