Hi Kevin, In the past I've used cpusets for process tracking and cranked up the frequency for checking memory usage to a few seconds. It was 99.999% foolproof. The cpusets guarantee accurate tracking of the jobs processes. If all else fails that might work for you.
-Aaron Sent from my iPhone On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Kevin Abbey <kevin.ab...@rutgers.edu> wrote: > > Hi , > > I started using cgroups for control memory usage last week. One user > reported his application takes 4 times longer to complete. I read > elsewhere that cgroup mem. control can reduce performance. Is this > amount realistic? > > Is there a more efficient method to control memory usage on nodes which > are shared? > > > Thank you for any advice, > > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Abbey > Systems Administrator > Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB) > http://ccib.camden.rutgers.edu/ > > Rutgers University - Science Building > 315 Penn St. > Camden, NJ 08102 > Telephone: (856) 225-6770 > Fax:(856) 225-6312 > Email: kevin.ab...@rutgers.edu
