Re: [Condor-users] Limiting number of concurrently running jobsfrom a cluster.

["Matt Hope" <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> short answer, use DagMan I believe configuration to allow
>> just what you descrive was recently added.
> ...snip...
>> If you can you might want to consider getting the DagMan
>> stuff to work though since that is officially supported and
>> has stuff to do what you want directly.
>
> I was going to answer with "use DAGMan" as well but then I got to
> reading. Specifically:
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.0/3_3Configuration.html#15357
>
> and
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.0/2_10DAGMan_Applications.html#S
> ECTION003102900000000000000
>
> Both those make it sound like DAGMan *tries* but can't actually limit
> things to specifically N number of jobs.
>
> Did I read that right?

yep - if you're doing multiple jobs per cluster that isn't going to
work on it's own...

Matt