[Beowulf] Setting memory limits on a compute node

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

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We have found that Gaussian does not clean up nicely so in our epilogue 
script we run an ipcs and clear out any Gaussian shared memory segments, as 
identified by the owner.

You are right, eventually the machine consumes itself. All current 
processes are running just fine, so long as they do not request any more 
memory. :)

On 2004-06-08 10:42 (-0500), Brent M. Clements <bclem at rice.edu> wrote:
] We have a user who submits a job to a compute node.
] 
] The application is gaussian. The parent gaussian process can spawn a few
] child processes. It appears that the gaussian application is exhausting
] all of the memory in the system essentially stopping the machine from
] working.   <...SNIP...>
] 
] What is the best to approach this kinda of issue? We have come up with a
] few solutions but each one has it's drawbacks.

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