[torqueusers] ulimit -l

[Donald Tripp]

Another option for a job launcher is mpiexec, which will work with  
torque (PBS variant).

http://www.osc.edu/~pw/mpiexec/index.php


- Donald Tripp
  dtripp at hawaii.edu
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HPC Systems Administrator
High Performance Computing Center
University of Hawai'i at Hilo
200 W. Kawili Street
Hilo,   Hawaii   96720
http://www.hpc.uhh.hawaii.edu


On Mar 27, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Brock Palen wrote:

> Most  our MPI libs use the tm job launcher.  Does sessions spawned  
> by tm use the login service?
>
> Brock Palen
> Center for Advanced Computing
> brockp at umich.edu
> (734)936-1985
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Brian D. Haymore wrote:
>
>> You will need to do a couple things still.
>>
>> First is to go to your /etc/pam.d directory and edit one or more  
>> of the following files (this is based on RedHat EL4 btw so a  
>> different dist may be different):
>>
>> rsh (if your using rsh for your remote job dispatch mechanism)
>> sshd (if your using ssh for your remote job dispatch mechanism)
>> login
>>
>> and add in this line into each of those files:
>>
>> session    required     pam_limits.so
>>
>> Some of those files on my RedHat system said certain rules already  
>> in the file had to be first or last so take note of that if they  
>> are there for you as well.
>>
>>
>> Then the next thing is you have to restart the torque daemons on  
>> each system.  The reason for this is if they were started before  
>> you made these changes they hold the old limits and all processes  
>> they spawn will inherit those limits.  So restarting will get  
>> Torque going with the "unlimited" mode so child processes inherit  
>> that.
>>
>>
>> Brock Palen wrote:
>>> Hello,  We are making our first trip into the world of OpenIB and  
>>> in this environment they require us to up the lockable memory.   
>>> While we have upped the amount in  /etc/security/limits.conf and  
>>> shows up if i ssh to a node.  But in a pbs job it falls back to  
>>> the default 32kb.  Is there a method to getting around this?
>>> Brock Palen
>>> Center for Advanced Computing
>>> brockp at umich.edu
>>> (734)936-1985
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>>
>> -- 
>> Brian D. Haymore
>> University of Utah
>> Center for High Performance Computing
>> 155 South 1452 East RM 405
>> Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0190
>> Phone: (801) 558-1150, Fax: (801) 585-5366
>> http://www.map.utah.edu/umaplink/0019.html
>>
>>
>
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