I just found this post that answers this question: http://gridengine.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/002215.html
Hope that this is useful for someone. Yago On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Yago Fernández Pinilla <[email protected]> wrote: > Would work to puse mem_free as a consumable resource for the submission of > jobs so we ensure that there is enough memory for all jobs in the same node? > > Thanks again Reuti > > Yago > > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Reuti <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Please have a look at /usr/sge/doc/load_parameters.asc: >> >> mem_free : The amount of free memory. >> swap_free : The amount of free swap memory. >> virtual_free : The sum of mem_free and swap_free. >> >> and `man queue_conf`: >> >> [...] s_vmem and h_vmem [...] They impose a limit on the amount of >> combined virtual memory consumed by all the processes in the job. >> >> -- Reuti >> >> >> Am 07.06.2014 um 15:23 schrieb Yago Fernández Pinilla: >> >> > 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Yago Fernández Pinilla >> > e-mail: [email protected] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > > > -- > Yago Fernández Pinilla > e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Yago Fernández Pinilla e-mail: [email protected]
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