Hi William, If your client can wait, then the next "feature release" of Open Grid Scheduler will very likely have this feature -- I just got the prototype working.
Rayson On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Alex Chekholko <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/26/2011 06:04 PM, William Deegan wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> Is there a way to set the maximum rate at which new jobs will be launched >> on a cluster (and/or a given machine)? >> >> My client's worried about submitting a 100 jobs and having them all start >> at the same time crushing the fileserver. >> > One possibility (other than re-architecting the storage infrastructure) is > to add a random delay to the beginning of the job script. E.g. bash > > NUMBER=$[ ( $RANDOM % 1000 ) + 1 ] > sleep $NUMBER > > That would likely distribute the startups of the jobs evenly over 1000 > seconds, assuming SGE launches them all simultaneously. > > Regards, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
