[Swift-devel] Re: [Swft] Q about throttling

[Veronika Nefedova]

There are two throttle parameters you might want to check. One is in  
swift.properties called throttle.submit and one in scheduler.xml  
called jobThrottle.
I am curious whats the difference between them?

Nika

On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:

> No
> I'm saying that swift throttle value will allow me to make full use of
> all the nodes that Falkon makes available for me. I know that I had 26
> jobs to be run, and I requested (and had) 30 nodes in the cluster.
> Somehow only 24 jobs run in the first time, so I'm going to push up
> the throttle value in Swift
>
> Tibi
>
>
> On 6/21/07, Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:
>>
>> > No
>> > My chart shows that if I had two more machines during the first  
>> stage
>> > run (the first 26 jobs), I would have avoided a long wait (50000  
>> ms ,
>> > or about 9 minutes) for the last two jobs from the first batch to
>> > finish.
>> > This is why I need to redo the Econ run, with a different throttle
>> > value for Swift.
>>
>> So you are saying that changing the 'throttle value for swift' will
>> allocate more machines for you?
>>
>> --
>>
>
>
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