[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm, RHEL6, cgroups and not constraining memory

2013-01-21 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/01/13 01:35, David Bigagli wrote: > Perhaps an easy approach is to set RLIMIT_AS in the job itself or > in its wrapper, then allow the application to handle ENOMEM error. This is what we do already in Torque (via a local patch), the only wrink

[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm, RHEL6, cgroups and not constraining memory

2013-01-21 Thread David Bigagli
Perhaps an easy approach is to set RLIMIT_AS in the job itself or in its wrapper, then allow the application to handle ENOMEM error. On 01/21/2013 10:16 AM, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: > > Christopher Samuel writes: > >> On 18/01/13 19:53, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: >> >>> I don't know if this is th

[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm, RHEL6, cgroups and not constraining memory

2013-01-21 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Christopher Samuel writes: > On 18/01/13 19:53, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: > >> I don't know if this is the reason in your case, but note that cgroup >> in slurm constrains_resident_ RAM, not_allocated_ ("virtual") RAM. > > Hmm, as a sysadmin that doesn't seem very useful, Hmm, as a sysadmin I