Hi,

What is exactly the difference between mem_free and h_vmem?

Thanks in advance

Yago


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Michael Stauffer <[email protected]> wrote:

> OGS/GE 2011.11p1
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there an alternative to h_vmem that checks resident memory rather than
> virtual? I'd like a consumable that kills a job when it oversteps its
> requested memory quota, so h_vmem is great. But I'm having trouble with
> Matlab (and maybe other apps, haven't checked fully yet) which at startup,
> allocates a somewhat-variable large amount of VIRT memory (~4G) but little
> RES memory (~300M) (according to 'top').
>
> Matlab's java environment is allocating most of the virtual memory, but
> they can't tell me a way to limit this. In any case this large VIRT value
> makes it impossible to set a smaller default h_vmem value because Matlab
> won't launch.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> -M
>
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