Hi, All. When you enable h_vmem, make sure to watch out for h_stack, too. Otherwise, your programs may fail to start, particularly Matlab and Python for me.
$ qsub -l h_vmem=2G -l h_stack=128M myjob.sh Cheers. On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 04:50:05PM +0200, Nicolás Serrano Martínez-Santos wrote: > As far as I know, you have to define a memory consumable in each host, and > reserve it when submit a process to SGE, e.g. qsub -l h_vmem=2G. Otherwise, > machines memory could start swapping and then crash the machine. Also, this > way, the server also kills those process than consume more memory than > was reserved. > > More info: > > http://serverfault.com/questions/241813/sun-grid-engine-set-memory-requirements-per-jobs > > Best regards, > > NiCo > > Excerpts from Edrisse Chermak's message of 2013-10-07 16:25:48 +0200: > > Dear Grid Engine developers and users, > > > > I would like to prevent jobs running when node memory is almost filled. > > Here is the typical situation I have: > > > > 'qhost': > > ================================================================ > > HOSTNAME ARCH NCPU LOAD MEMTOT MEMUSE > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > global - - - - - > > node1 linux-x64 64 12.00 52.4G 42.8G > > node2 linux-x64 64 24.00 52.4G 12.8G > > =============================================================== > > > > The memory on node1 is almost filled, so I would like the new job I'll > > launch to go on node2. (provided that the job I want to launch requires > > 2 CPUs and that I configured np_load_avg=0.80, so that CPU load doesn't > > matter here). > > > > note : I'm using ge2011.1 > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Best Regards, > > Edrisse > > > > -- > NiCo > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Gavin W. Burris Senior IT Project Leader Research Computing Wharton Computing University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
