On 26 Apr 2005, at 15:51, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> How have you configured PBS? Each queue has a default walltime (and
> cputime) limit which gets used for all grid jobs, so you should
> configure them to something sensible, which is probably more than 1
> minute! You can also configure "max" values but those are useless as
> far
> as the grid is concerned because the broker never requests anything
> other than the default (the max is the maxmimum you can request).
OK, so the broker requests for the job whatever the queue's default
walltime is? Seems like the best fix for right now is to make the
defaults a bit saner.
We do intend to look at our queue structures after gathering a little
experience. Right now, we just publish one queue for all.
Thanks,
Fraser
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