on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:11:33PM -0500, thannguy @ cse. psu. edu ([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 ?
I suspect 'dqs' or 'queue' packages may do what you're looking for. They can be set up across a cluster or a single system, and offer finer-grained control than the traditional cron/at/batch GNU/Linux job schedulers. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html http://www.dowethics.com/r/environment/freedom.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]