On 10/27/2011 01:41 AM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > 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...
Exactly. That's why I don't want to automate killing jobs longer than X days. Honestly, I can't believe how much controversy this discussion has created. I thought my OP would go unnoticed. Next time, I'll just ask which text editor I should use. ;) -- Prentice _______________________________________________ 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
