Re: [condor-users] controlling number of jobs running at once

[Mark Silberstein <marks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
MAX_JOBS_RUNNING can be changed on the fly using condor_config_val. It's
the way we did it and quite nicely. IN order to localize the effect to
only one user, you can start condor_schedd on per user basis, it works
not bad. 
Mark
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:08, Henry Knowles wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i've had this problem too.  you can set the number of jobs 
> running using
> 
> MAX_JOBS_RUNNING	10
> 
> you might also find that if there is a delay between starting jobs that
> it might help:
> 
> JOB_START_DELAY		5
> 
> which is the time in seconds.  both these want to go into 
> condor_config.local, and then you need to issue a condor_reconfig.  The
> other option is to copy the data onto a number of machines, and then 
> just use them.
> 
> hope that helps,
> henry
> 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Adam Mercer 
> <ram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've got a series of jobs that I need to run, around 540, that require a
> > very large amount of data and don't take long to process. If I submit them
> > all at once the network bandwidth is maxed out. Is there anyway to specify
> > in the submit file to only run say 10 jobs at a time. I know I can specify
> > in the requirements to only run on specified machines, but can I say to
> > only run on 10 nodes (any that are availble).
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
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