On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 04:59:05 PM Simpson Lachlan wrote: > Ohhh, thankyou. This is the first I've heard of this being necessary.( I saw > it in the docs, but brushed over it)
I think it's only really necessary for XDMoD which we've only just started playing with (it looks really nice), but I've put default and maximum walltimes on systems I manage for around a decade now. Originally we did it to enable planning outages as in my previous job there were some mathematicians who would run codes for arbitrarily long times (well over 3 months). > Do you have a recommended default time? Your 10 minute limit seems rather > short? That's deliberate, it's meant to force users to think about what they need rather than just taking the default and making it harder for backfill to work efficiently. > And Max limit...iirc V3 had a max limit of 96 days or something - I feel > like a week should be enough, but my colleague tells me that some whole of > genome sequencing can take at least that long... Our defaults are: PartitionName=DEFAULT MaxTime=30-0 DefaultTime=0:10:0 So that's 30 days maximum. We have people run jobs for a couple of weeks easily. All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci
