On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:21:21PM +0100, Stephen Childs wrote:
> Kostas Georgiou wrote:
>
>> It would definitely help once the CE starts passing down job
>> requirements but does anyone expect the users to bother specifying
>> the right amount? What will happen with the pilot jobs that obviously
>> can not have the right requirements since you can't know at submission
>> time what the real job will need?
>
> At least if we move to queues based on memory requirements (and set the
> default to have a low limit) then over time users will realise they need
> to _ask_ for the amount of memory they need.
I really hope so. We have a fast queue with a 30min limit and we keep getting
jobs there from users and they don't seem to notice or care about it. I
am not even sure that the middleware gives them an error back that tells
them why their jobs failed (does anyone know if this is the case?).
Kostas
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