Re: [Condor-users] Only allow 40 of my runs to run at once

["R. Kent Wenger" <wenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Rob Stevenson wrote:

> Hi all,
> One of our Condor users has a particular type of job which puts a lot 
> of pressure on a database server. We've worked out that any more than 40 
> runs at once and the db server will fall over and all jobs fail 
> completely.

Can all of these jobs be submitted at once, or does the user submit them 
more-or-less randomly?  If they can be submitted in a batch, an easy 
solution is to put the jobs into a disjoint DAG, and then set maxjobs=40 
for that DAG.

Kent Wenger
Condor Team