Re: [Condor-users] Stop jobs that use too much RAM?

[Alexander Lincoln Read <a.l.read@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The classad e.g. "PeriodicRemove = ImageSize > 600" will insure that
jobs using more than 600 MB are terminated by Condor.

Cheers, Alex Read

John Wheez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know there are ways to make Condor stop jobs that are active too  
> long but is there a way to tell Condor to stop a job which starts to  
> take too much RAM?
>
> I have jobs that increase in RAM usage initially and then slowly  
> reach there top memory usage..every once in a while a user puts too  
> much data in to the job and it takes over an acceptable amount of  
> RAM. SO i'm hoping the shadow can somehow keep checking the ram usage  
> throughout the life span of the job.
>
> Is something like this possible within condor?
>
> As a hack i know i can make a program that monitors ram usage and put  
> it on my compute nodes. THis program could then
> use condor_status etc to get me the info i need to stop the job...
>
> thanks for any tips
>
> JW
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