Fraser, probably before your time but Glasgow was one of the first to
point out this problem with Maui. You need to set the default high. This
is a drag but no obvious way round. It is a long-standing requirement on
WMS people, not sure if gLite WMS addresses it.
This has reared its head again recently as long defaults prevent PBS (or
whatever) backfilling spare cpus as it tries to gather a number of free
cpus for an MPI job.
John
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> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fraser Speirs
> Sent: 26 April 2005 15:46
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> Subject: Walltime for LCG jobs
>
> All,
>
> Please excuse the vagueness of this question, it concerns the part of
> our farm that I don't deal with directly (the PBS system).
>
> I'm told that LCG jobs appear in PBS with an estimated wall time of
> one minute and that this means PBS will always kill the job after a
> minute, regardless of the job's actual requirements.
>
> Is this something that other people have had to work around and, if
> so, what's considered the best approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Fraser
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