Re: [HTCondor-users] Priority calculation: memory

[Brian Candler <b.candler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/2015 08:05, Mathieu Bahin wrote:
> Actually, we wonder how things will be with the partitionable slots.
> >From what we understand:
>    - a default max memory is allocated to the job if nothing special is
> specified
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/current/condor_submit.html 
(JOB_DEFAULT_REQUESTMEMORY)
https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/htcondor-users/2012-May/msg00160.shtml

>    - if the job exceed this memory, the job is aborted
As far as I know there's no hard limiting of jobs to their requested 
memory, unless you explicitly set it up using a wrapper, or cgroups with 
hard limits. See:
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/latest/3_12Setting_Up.html#SECTION0041213000000000000000
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/latest/3_12Setting_Up.html#SECTION0041214000000000000000