[Swift-commit] r2916 - trunk/docs

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Author: benc
Date: 2009-05-13 08:27:38 -0500 (Wed, 13 May 2009)
New Revision: 2916

Modified:
   trunk/docs/userguide.xml
Log:
maxwalltime notes

Modified: trunk/docs/userguide.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/userguide.xml	2009-05-13 13:26:36 UTC (rev 2915)
+++ trunk/docs/userguide.xml	2009-05-13 13:27:38 UTC (rev 2916)
@@ -3112,8 +3112,7 @@
 			</para>
 		</section>
 		<section id="profile.globus"><title>Globus namespace</title>
-			<para id="profile.globus.maxwalltime"><literal>maxwalltime</literal> specifies a walltime limit for each job, in minutes. This profile setting also interacts
-with the <link linkend="clustering">clustering mechanism</link>.
+			<para id="profile.globus.maxwalltime"><literal>maxwalltime</literal> specifies a walltime limit for each job, in minutes.
 			</para>
 			<para>
 The following formats are recognized:
@@ -3127,6 +3126,17 @@
 a job has been active for more than twice the maxwalltime, Swift will kill the
 job and regard it as failed.
 			</para>
+			<para>
+When clustering is used, <literal>maxwalltime</literal> will be used to
+select which jobs will be clustered together. More information on this is
+available in the <link linkend="clustering">clustering section</link>.
+			</para>
+			<para>
+When coasters as used, <literal>maxwalltime</literal> influences the default
+coaster worker maxwalltime, and which jobs will be sent to which workers.
+More information on this is available in the <link linkend="coasters">coasters
+section</link>.
+			</para>
 			<para id="profile.globus.queue"><literal>queue</literal> 
 is used by the PBS, GRAM2 and GRAM4 providers. This profile
 entry specifies which queue jobs will be submitted to. The valid queue names
@@ -3627,6 +3637,11 @@
 submitted for a job is controlled by the <literal>replication.limit</literal>
 configuration property.
 		</para>
+		<para>
+When replication is enabled, Swift will also enforce the
+<literal>maxwalltime</literal> profile setting for jobs as documented in
+the <link linkend="profiles">profiles section</link>.
+		</para>
 	</section>
 
 	</section>