Hi, sure I can just kill those jobs, but this is exactly what I'd like to avoid.
Thanks Dietmar On 8/27/19 10:48 AM, Reuti wrote: > Hi, > >> Am 26.08.2019 um 14:15 schrieb Dietmar Rieder <dietmar.rie...@i-med.ac.at>: >> >> Hi, >> >> may be this is a stupid question, but I'd like to limit the used/usable >> number of cores to the number of slots that were reserved for a job. >> >> We often see that people reserve 1 slot, e.g. "qsub -pe smp 1 [...]" >> but their program is then running in parallel on multiple cores. How can >> this be prevented? Is it possible that with reserving only one slot a >> process can not utilize more than this? > > Can't you just kill their jobs? They will learn to comply with the site's > policy. > > This can of course also happen by accident as applications like Gaussian or > ORCA have the number of to be used cores inside the input file (although > Gaussian has nowadays a command line option for it too). > > We use a job generator which will also copy at runtime an "adjusted" input > file for the job to $TMPDIR and uses this one. Hence whatever the users put > inside the input file: the number of slots will be corrected in the copy of > the input file to the number of granted slots. Let me know if you would like > to get them. > > -- Reuti > > >> I was told the this should be possible in slurm (which we don't have, >> and to which we don't want to switch to currently). >> >> Thanks >> Dietmar >> >> -- >> _________________________________________ >> D i e t m a r R i e d e r, Mag.Dr. >> Innsbruck Medical University >> Biocenter - Institute of Bioinformatics >> Email: dietmar.rie...@i-med.ac.at >> Web: http://www.icbi.at >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users@gridengine.org >> https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- _________________________________________ D i e t m a r R i e d e r, Mag.Dr. Innsbruck Medical University Biocenter - Institute of Bioinformatics Email: dietmar.rie...@i-med.ac.at Web: http://www.icbi.at
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