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DateWed, 20 Feb 2008 11:48:41 +0900
FromKOSAKI Motohiro <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6
Hi Rik

> > Sounds like a job for memory limits (ulimit?), not for OOM
> > notification, right?
> 
> I suspect one problem could be that an HPC job scheduling program
> does not know exactly how much memory each job can take, so it can
> sometimes end up making a mistake and overcommitting the memory on
> one HPC node.
> 
> In that case the user is better off having that job killed and
> restarted elsewhere, than having all of the jobs on that node
> crawl to a halt due to swapping.
> 
> Paul, is this guess correct? :)

Yes.
Fujitsu HPC middleware watching sum of memory consumption of the job
and, if over-consumption happened, kill process and remove job schedule.

I think that is common hpc requirement.
but we watching to user defined memory limit, not swap.

Thanks.




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