Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Coles, J (Jeremy)
said:
> This is the comment I have received indirectly from Heinz:
>
> "> That 's mainly a site configuration problem that I have already
sorted
> > out with a site in Croatia. The main problem is that a 4-core
machine
> > publishes 4GB RAM, however, every core then only has about 1 GB. The
> > Resource Broker assumes that the RAM amount published is per _core_
> > (which is reasonable). Therefore, jobs get wrongly assigned.
Err, no. The Resource Broker assumes nothing whatsoever. *Users* (Heinz
in this case) assume things, often wrongly! Then they raise tickets
against sites and persuade them to misconfigure themselves ...
> That seems
> > to be a side effect of new processor technology. I already
> have a JDL
> > limit of 2 GB RAM which works for most of the sites that follow the
> > "traditional" way of publishing CPU power."
>
> Can anyone define the "traditional way"?
The wrong way?
Stephen
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