Re: [HTCondor-users] is it Condor honoring /etc/security/limits.conf ?

[Gianmauro Cuccuru <gmauro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

thanks for your reply.

On 2/18/22 21:41, Mark Coatsworth wrote:
> Hi Gianmauro,
>
> This statement is still true -- we still ignore these. When condor
> runs as root it doesn't go through the login process where these
> limits are processed.
>
> Do you care about these limits for jobs, or for the condor daemons?

For jobs. I am trying to set a limit on the files size created by jobs 
and also set a different nice value for them.

Do you have any suggestion how can I do it?

Thanks,
Gianmauro

> Mark
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:25 PM Gianmauro Cuccuru
> <gmauro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running HTCondor ver. 8.8.15 as root.
> > I added into /etc/security/limits.conf a limit on files size, but seems
> > to be completely ignored by Condor.
> >
> > In https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=LinuxTuning , I
> > found this "At the moment (October 2003) Condor will ignore these limits
> > when run as root."
> >
> > Is this statement still true?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gianmauro
> >
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