Am 12.11.2014 um 11:58 schrieb Roberto Nunnari: > recently I had a user submitting thousands of jobs. > > This, caused the scheduler to run for a long time at full CPU usage.. sorting > out 9'000 pending jobs and find out which one to schedule next and where is > ways too much for our frontend HW. Also, the scheduler is configured to run > every minute and that made the problem even worse. > > So, the question is: > > Is there a way to limit the number of jobs that can be pending in the queue?
Not for pending alone, but for pending + running, i.e. the number of jobs known to SGE by a single user by setting "max_u_jobs" in SGE's configuration (`man sge_conf`). -- Reuti _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users