Re: [Condor-users] Hard limit on the number of jobs from a specific user

["David A. Kotz" <dkotz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One option would be to use group quotas with each user in a separate 
group.  Each group can be given a maximum number of VMs that (s)he can use.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.8/3_5User_Priorities.html

- dave


Hrant P. Hratchian wrote:
> I take care of a cluster dedicated to our research group and we have a 
> need to place a hard limit on the number of jobs any one user can have 
> running at any given time.  The calculations we do, unfortunately, do 
> not checkpoint well so preemption is not a good option for us to achieve 
> fair use by all users.  (The problem is that many of our jobs run for 
> days at a time, so the solution for people with idle jobs is not to just 
> wait patiently for the other person's jobs to finish.)
>
> I can't seem to find any macros for the configuration file that would 
> allow a hard limit setting.  I hope that I'm just missing it.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction or offer a work-around?  Is 
> there a way to have the remote nodes only accept a job if the user's 
> priority level is below a set threshold?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> HPH
>
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> Hrant P. Hratchian, Ph.D.
> E. R. Davidson Fellow
> Department of Chemistry
> Indiana University
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