Re: [Beowulf] Users abusing screen

2011-10-24 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/10/11 00:10, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > I have a question that isn't directly related to clusters, but I suspect > it's an issue many of you are dealing with are dealt with: users using > the screen command to stay logged in on systems and running

Re: [Beowulf] Users abusing screen

2011-10-24 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Anything is possible if you're a good enough programmer. Like I said earlier, there are some users legitimately running long jobs on the systems in question. Instead of developing a clever program to automatically kill long running screen jobs, I think it would be better to be up front with my user

Re: [Beowulf] Users abusing screen

2011-10-24 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 10/24/2011 02:30 AM, Jan Wender wrote: > On 10/21/2011 03:10 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> I have a question that isn't directly related to clusters, but I suspect >> it's an issue many of you are dealing with are dealt with: users using >> the screen command to stay logged in on systems and ru

Re: [Beowulf] Users abusing screen

2011-10-24 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 10/22/2011 08:02 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 10/21/11 15:14, Andrew Piskorski wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:10:18AM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> >>> My opinion is these these are shared resources, and if you aren't >>> interactively using them, you should log out to free up re

Re: [Beowulf] Users abusing screen

2011-10-24 Thread Reuti
Am 24.10.2011 um 13:00 schrieb Gregory Matthews: > Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday. >> Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn, >> from what I understand. > > our experience of ppl using nohup without re

Re: [Beowulf] Users abusing screen

2011-10-24 Thread Gregory Matthews
Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday. > Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn, > from what I understand. our experience of ppl using nohup without really thinking it through is eventually filling the partiti