Re: [Condor-users] Memory usage limitation

[Burt Holzman <burt@xxxxxxxx>]

Fabrice Charlier wrote:
 > I would like to know if it's possible to limit the memory usage of a 
job
> submitted on a condor cluster.
> For example, if my job takes more than 1Gb of memory, condor sends a 
> SIGKILL to it.
>
> I found a old post (2005) on the mailing list that says condor will 
> never have this functionality.
> It's always true?

Somewhere in late 6.7, condor added SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE.  You can add 
a SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE expression such as

SYSTEM_PERIODIC_REMOVE = (ImageSize > 1000000)

which will terminate any job whose VSIZE exceeds 1 GB.

- B