> I *think* that what ATLAS want, given the note about "sites that don't
> kill on vmem don't need to worry", is that they simply be allowed to
> run processes with 4GB of mapped address space.
yes, that's the final aim of course. However they have had enough
problems in the past either with batch systems configure to kill or with
nodes with not enough virtual memory. Said that if the atlas historic
dashboard can be trusted all UK sites have run reco jobs in the past
year in different degrees and I cannot see specific memory error
problems. Some have been killed by the batch system though
http://dashb-atlas-job.cern.ch/dashboard/request.py/terminatedjobsstatus_individual?sites=UK&activities=reco&sitesSort=8&start=2011-02-01&end=2012-04-03&timeRange=daily&sortBy=0&granularity=Monthly&generic=0&series=All&type=pfe
It'd be interesting to know why.
cheers
alessandra
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