[Swift-user] Question about job sizes

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Apr 17 19:28:18 CDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 15:27 -0500, Lorenzo Pesce wrote:
> Me again ;-)
> 
> If the jobs occupy memory and CPU in a predictable way, say they have
> a parameter i =1:20 where 20 takes 20 time units and 1 takes on.
> Memory also grows, but not proportionally. 
> Is there a way to tell coasters how to pack jobs in order to not bust the memory?

Partially. Maxwalltime should be the thing you use to specify the
maximum cpu time. There is no equivalent for memory, though it seems
like a useful feature to have.

Mihael




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