[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] Swift finished with errors

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:30 -0500, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:24 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > 
> > > <     <profile namespace="karajan" key="jobThrottle">0</profile>              
> > 
> > > Though that also seems to beg the question: why is that a default?
> > 
> > That line is a default on the local site because local sites tend to run 
> > with provider local onto ~2 CPU cores with no LRM management of load.
> > 
> > Other site definitions (in the default sites.xml file and in for example 
> > tests/sites/) don't use that setting, so that they pick up the 
> > usually-appropriate-for-GRAM2 setting of 0.2 from swift.properties.
> > 
> 
> That makes sense. Though not for wonky.

Also as long as we're talking about processes that don't parallelize
well on a single CPU (such as CPU-bound ones).

I think it doesn't hurt much to have slightly more than 2 processes
there, whereas it might hurt to have only 2.

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