Re: [Condor-users] Dynamic slots memory requirements

[Mag Gam <magawake@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thats what I figured. I though dynamic slots would do something :-)

Thanks for your response Matt.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/18/2010 10:33 AM, Mag Gam wrote:
>> If a user sets this:
>> #512 mb of memory
>> request_memory=512
>>
>> the jobs goes over 512 megs, does the job go into hold?
>>
>> if not, is it possible to have it held?
>>
>> TIA
>
> Condor generally does not enforce such things by default. You should use policy if you care enough to hold a job.
>
> For instance, something like: periodic_hold = (RequestMemory * 1024) < ImageSize
>
> Or you could write a startd policy expression to kick jobs that go over their memory request.
>
> If you want to be really harsh about it, you can use a USER_JOB_WRAPPER and actually set ulimits to enforce memory requests.
>
> Best,
>
>
> matt
>