Reuti <[email protected]> writes: > Am 11.12.2012 um 21:32 schrieb Gowtham: > >> I second Alex's thoughts. In all our clusters, we only use h_vmem > > The difference is that virtual_free is only a guidance for SGE, but > h_vmem will also be enforced. It depends on the working style of the > users/groups which you want to prefer to use. Is only one group using > a cluster I prefer virtual_free, as they are checking their results > and prediction of memory requests, but with many groups in a cluster > enforcing h_vmem might be more suitable to avoid oversubscription.
On the other hand, nodes here dedicated to a group spent much of their time swapping until I enforced h_vmem -- a Germanic chemistry group too! Also, we see jobs that have highly time-dependent memory requirements. -- Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
