[Swift-user] Swift is stuck with 5K jobs

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Mar 14 19:32:26 CDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:49 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Andriy,
> 
> Another alternative is to run Swift outside of the cluster - eg on a
> script execution host at your home institution - and manually start
> the coaster workers in a PBS job. These workers would connect back to
> the swift command (or to an external coaster server process) to pick
> up jobs to run.

Given that he's using coasters in automated mode, it may be easier to
keep using it in automated mode but submit through GRAM and keep only
the coaster service on the head node while swift would be running on
some local machine which would not have as many restrictions.

Mihael





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