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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Timeout procedure for using to much memory or cpu Post 302958392 by bakunin on Wednesday 21st of October 2015 03:53:12 PM
Old 10-21-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
You can write a script that reads a config file with "procname:cputime" tupels, for example
Code:
x:30
y:1440

That means process "x" may run 30 CPU minutes and process "y" may run 1 CPU day.
The script can check every 10 minutes if any of the running processes exceed these limits, warn the user, and finally kill them (the processes Smilie).
This is an interesting idea, but couldn't that easily be circumvented by renaming the process?

How about this: you create a queuing system, which starts the processes. Set the ulimits for users to values so that they have to use the queueing system and cannot start their jobs directly. This queueing system can be configured by a definition file like MadeInGermany mentioned. You set some parameters like RAM usage, CPU usage, etc., upon which the queueing system decides if a job has to be canceled or not.

A similar idea was the start of the VQS (Vienna Queueing System (german)) back then in the late eighties. It was designed to run very big, massively parallel jobs using a large cluster of IBM RS/6000-systems running AIX. The idea was to make big jobs possible but abort them after relatively short time so that the system was free for other jobs. The short time the jobs ran was enough to test and refine them so that you needed the the long-running job classes only for the final run.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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queuedefs(4)							   File Formats 						      queuedefs(4)

NAME
queuedefs - queue description file for at, batch, and cron SYNOPSIS
/etc/cron.d/queuedefs DESCRIPTION
The queuedefs file describes the characteristics of the queues managed by cron(1M). Each non-comment line in this file describes one queue. The format of the lines are as follows: q.[njobj][nicen][nwaitw] The fields in this line are: q The name of the queue. a is the default queue for jobs started by at(1); b is the default queue for jobs started by batch (see at(1)); c is the default queue for jobs run from a crontab(1) file. njob The maximum number of jobs that can be run simultaneously in that queue; if more than njob jobs are ready to run, only the first njob jobs will be run, and the others will be run as jobs that are currently running terminate. The default value is 100. nice The nice(1) value to give to all jobs in that queue that are not run with a user ID of super-user. The default value is 2. nwait The number of seconds to wait before rescheduling a job that was deferred because more than njob jobs were running in that job's queue, or because the system-wide limit of jobs executing has been reached. The default value is 60. Lines beginning with # are comments, and are ignored. EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample file. # # a.4j1n b.2j2n90w This file specifies that the a queue, for at jobs, can have up to 4 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice value of 1. As no nwait value was given, if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs are running cron will wait 60 seconds before trying again to run it. The b queue, for batch(1) jobs, can have up to 2 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice(1) value of 2. If a job cannot be run because too many other jobs are running, cron(1M) will wait 90 seconds before trying again to run it. All other queues can have up to 100 jobs running simultaneously; they will be run with a nice value of 2, and if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs are running cron will wait 60 seconds before trying again to run it. FILES
/etc/cron.d/queuedefs queue description file for at, batch, and cron. SEE ALSO
at(1), crontab(1), nice(1), cron(1M) SunOS 5.10 1 Mar 1994 queuedefs(4)
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