Yes, I have run into that as well. Java jobs definitely need to be sized accordingly, setting max heap and such, and requesting it immediately.
Ian On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoul...@gmail.com > wrote: > I have had issues in the past with Java jobs and h_vmem. When using a > large initial heap size, SGE would kill the java process at startup when it > is allocating its memory. You may want to lookup the MALLOC_ARENA_MAX > environment variable. > > We ended up using s_vmem instead, and handling it in our job scripts. > > 2016-05-09 18:31 GMT+02:00 Alex Chekholko <ch...@stanford.edu>: > >> IIRC this bug had to do with setting your "consumable" value to "YES" vs >> "JOB". I think it only affected you if you have your consumable value per >> job instead of per slot. >> >> I have now: >> >> #name shortcut type relop requestable consumable >> default urgency >> >> h_vmem h_vmem MEMORY <= YES YES 1G >> 0 >> >> We used to use "JOB" in that consumable column. >> >> >> On 05/09/2016 02:13 AM, nico.faer...@id.unibe.ch wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are running OGS/GE 2011.11p1. Concerning the problem that for certain >>> multi-core jobs the reported h_vmem value is much higher than the true >>> amount of memory used by the job, can anyone propose a solution to this >>> problem, e.g. working patch, … How do you deal with this problem? We >>> want to keep h_vmem consumable to prevent jobs from overbooking a node. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Nico >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> users@gridengine.org >>> https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> -- >> Alex Chekholko ch...@stanford.edu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users@gridengine.org >> https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@gridengine.org > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- Ian Kaufman Research Systems Administrator UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu
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