On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 17:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question about the task queuing handling in linux. I am doing > some researches within a group and everyone's task needs a lot of > computation power and memory (around 500M per task). The machine we have > has 2 Xeon processors at 2 GHz/each and 3gigs of memory, the OS is > Debian Sid. However since each task requires too much resources even > that machine can't handle it so I want to use a queue system so that > everyone can submit the job but only two are kept running at a time . I > know such stuff for parallel computing at linux cluster, but I don't > know if there is such stuff for SMP. Is there some sort of softwares or > a way to do such thing ?
You want what's variously called a "Job Scheduler" or "Queue Manager" or "job spooler". Very common in the MVS, VMS & "big, proprietary Unix" worlds. Here's one, which is closed-source, and emulates the VMS Queue Manager: http://www.sector7.com/products/toolkits/vxjsp.htm (Mainly to aide in VMS-Unix conversion, but should also help you.) A job scheuler written in sh: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1229/sam9201d/9201d.htm -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
