Re: [HTCondor-users] Maximum length of submit macro?

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone know off the top of their heads if there's a limit to the 
> length of a submit description macro, and if so, what it is?

	There's no design limit.  There's a good change that things will 
go sideways at 2 or 4 gigabytes when trying to put the resulting ClassAd 
attribute on the wire.

> I do see the "general remark" in condor_submit's man page that command 
> line arguments must be less than 4k long, but no specifics about length 
> limits for lines within the description, or included lines.

	I believe that 4K limit comes more from OS limitations than from 
HTCondor.

- ToddM