Nothing related job limit changed in GE2011.11.

Most likely it is your shell limit (default login profile) getting
into the process environment of your jobs.

You can easily debug this by adding ulimit -a in your job script.

Rayson



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Lane Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A number of my jobs keep dying, and I'm having trouble tracking down
> what's going on. Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The job is a perl script that launches a binary (called moses) using
> the perl "system()" call. The end of the log file is below. I know
> that the perl script is responsible for printing out the last two
> lines (starting with "Exit code: 137"), but I can't figure out who is
> responsible for printing out the first line (starting with "sh: line
> 1: 29188 Killed"). I know that it's not the perl script, and I'm
> reasonably sure that it's not the moses binary.
>
> I suspect that maybe the grid engine is killing the job, but I don't
> know how to track down that hypothesis. Here's the log:
>
> sh: line 1: 29188 Killed
> /free/lane/slm-merging-trunk/moses-cmd/src/moses -config
> /scratch4/lane/2011-12-15_europarl/config/de-en/filtered/filtered.ttable20.dist05.synlm50.ini
> -inputtype 0 -w -0.178571 -slm 0.178571 -lm 0.089286 -d 0.053571
> 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 -tm 0.035714
> 0.035714 0.035714 0.035714 0.035714 -n-best-list run1.best100.out 100
> -input-file /scratch4/lane/2011-12-15_europarl/corpus/dev.tok.norm.de
>> run1.out
> Exit code: 137
> The decoder died. CONFIG WAS -w -0.178571 -slm 0.178571 -lm 0.089286
> -d 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 0.053571 -tm
> 0.035714 0.035714 0.035714 0.035714 0.035714
>
>
> My understanding is that an exit code 137 indicates that the process
> received kill signal 9.
>
>
> For what it's worth, the results of running qacct -j on the job after
> it died are listed below.
>
> ==============================================================
> qname        all.q
> hostname     quad19.scream.lab
> group        scream
> owner        lane
> project      NONE
> department   defaultdepartment
> jobname      de-en.mert
> jobnumber    20337
> taskid       undefined
> account      sge
> priority     0
> qsub_time    Mon Feb 13 14:08:54 2012
> start_time   Mon Feb 13 14:09:05 2012
> end_time     Wed Feb 15 14:54:52 2012
> granted_pe   NONE
> slots        1
> failed       0
> exit_status  2
> ru_wallclock 175547
> ru_utime     175460.360
> ru_stime     21.147
> ru_maxrss    23910412
> ru_ixrss     0
> ru_ismrss    0
> ru_idrss     0
> ru_isrss     0
> ru_minflt    6545996
> ru_majflt    7568
> ru_nswap     0
> ru_inblock   3067192
> ru_oublock   22064
> ru_msgsnd    0
> ru_msgrcv    0
> ru_nsignals  0
> ru_nvcsw     9545
> ru_nivcsw    256918
> cpu          175481.507
> mem          2516411.448
> io           4.733
> iow          0.000
> maxvmem      25.026G
> arid         undefined
>
>
> I'm running under OGS GE2011.11. A colleague suggested that there may
> be some sort of configuration where the grid engine is killing the
> jobs after 48 hours or so. I know that I've successfully run jobs
> longer than that under my old SGE setup, but not yet under the new OGS
> setup.
>
> As far as I can tell, all of my hard and soft limits are set to INFINITY.
>
> Thanks,
> Lane
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