Christopher Samuel wrote:
Why not just limit the number of jobs they can run by
using MAXJOB to a level that your file server can cope
with ?

Because I have free nodes and don't want them to idle while jobs are available. ;) And - as always - the users want their results asap...

Is your fileserver a RHEL box using ext3 by some chance ?

No a rather big Lustre storage system - but the mentioned user alone creates an I/O load of 2.5GB/s.

cheers
Nico
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