[Swift-devel] limiting simultaneous jobs using the local provider.

[Veronika V. Nefedova]

You can limit it with:
                 <property name="jobThrottle" value="1"/>
<property name="maxSimultaneousJobs" value="1"/>

in scheduler.xml

Nika

At 05:06 AM 5/4/2007, Ben Clifford wrote:

>Is there a way to limit the number of jobs that will be executing
>simultaneously with the local provider? (or perhaps with swift as a
>whole?)
>
>There are a few throttle parameters in the configuration file but I find
>them slightly confusing, and setting them all to 1 appears to not have the
>effect I want - I think I understand them to limit the number of jobs that
>will be in a particular internal gram 'in process of being submitted'
>state, rather than the total number of actually executing jobs.
>
>My immediate motivation for this is because the fmri workflow (which runs
>up to the incredible number of four cpu intensive executables
>simultaneously) pretty much kills my laptop for other purposes whilst its
>running. I'd much rather be able to limit it to one (or perhaps two).
>
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