On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:42:32 +0000
Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunn...@supsi.ch> wrote:

> Il 12.11.2014 14:33, William Hay ha scritto:
> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:14:25 +0000
> > Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunn...@supsi.ch> wrote:
> >
> >> humm.. answering myself..
> >>
> >> from the man pages it seams that
> >>
> >> maxujobs is for only running jobs per user
> >>
> >> while
> >>
> >> max_u_jobs is for both running and pending jobs per user
> >>
> >> is that correct?
> >>
> >> Thank you and best regards
> >> Robi
> > More or less.  There is one other slight difference when it comes to array 
> > jobs.
> > Maxujobs counts each running task while max_u_jobs considers the whole 
> > array to be a single job.
> 
> hehehe.. I still have to understand what a array job is.. and I don't 
> believe any of my users have ever used it. I'll try to find some doc 
> about it. :-)

It's a way to submit a bunch of jobs that are identical from grid engine's POV 
as a single job.  This lightens the load on the scheduler
and means qstat normally only reports a single queued job.  Probably what the 
user who caused your original issue should have submitted. 

> 
> Thank you.
> Robi


-- 
William Hay <w....@ucl.ac.uk>

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