Jesse Becker <[email protected]> writes: > I seem to recall hearing that "5 halflives" is how long radioactive > stuff has to decay before it's "safe." Don't quote me on that though. > :)
That rather depends on how unsafe it was to start with... > It also looks like a real exponential decay is used, instead of a linear > decrease (as in some of the load calculations). That's implied by half-time/half-life, though I can spell it out in the doc. > This is especially interesting since it implies that negative halftimes > are acceptible. Sure enough, setting a negative value zeros out > historical usage: > https://blogs.oracle.com/sgrell/entry/a_couple_lines_on_halftime [It's in sched_conf(5).] > So yes, you'd need to keep your accounting files around for some number > of halftimes. The accounting data just aren't generally useful in this context. See reporting(5) about recording sharelog, which you can stuff in postgres with dbwriter, for instance. -- Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
