[Swift-devel] maxParallelTasks in userguide

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Oct 31 13:28:16 CDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 10:53 -0500, Tim Armstrong wrote:
> The user guide states that the default value of maxParallelTasks is 2.  Is
> that correct?

That's what the new config sets it to.

>   In the code it looks like it's based on the formula
> jobThrottle * 100 + 1.  If the default value of jobThrottle is 2, that
> should be 201, right?

Yes, *if*. But I believe jobThrottle is set from maxParallelTasks, not
the other way around. It is though a discrepancy, and I'm not sure how
it came to be. Did anybody else know how we jumped from a jobThrottle of
2 to one of 0.02?

Mihael





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