Re: [Beowulf] Re: Time limits in queues

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Craig Tierney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /* Just catching up on list email on a plane */ > First all I agree that it is always a YMMV case. We good about that > here (the list). Indeed. > My point was, that in every instance that I have seen, multi-day > queue limits are not the norm.

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Time limits in queues

2008-01-17 Thread Craig Tierney
Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Craig Tierney wrote: Our queue limits are 8 hours. ... Did that sysadmin who set 24 hour time limits ever analyze the amount of lost computational time because of larger time limits? While I agree with the idea and reasons of short job runtime limit

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Time limits in queues

2008-01-17 Thread Lombard, David N
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:53:36PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Craig Tierney wrote: > > >Our queue limits are 8 hours. > >... > >Did that sysadmin who set 24 hour time limits ever analyze the amount > >of lost computational time because of larger time limits? > > While I

[Beowulf] Re: Time limits in queues

2008-01-17 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Craig Tierney wrote: Our queue limits are 8 hours. ... Did that sysadmin who set 24 hour time limits ever analyze the amount of lost computational time because of larger time limits? While I agree with the idea and reasons of short job runtime limits, I disagree with your

[Beowulf] Re: Time limits in queues

2008-01-17 Thread Leif Nixon
Craig Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Allowing users to run for days or weeks as SOP is begging for failure. Define failure. Our time limit is typically somewhere around 5 or 6 days. Many codes don't have checkpointing, and it's often simply not possible to add it because you don't have acc