[torqueusers] max job id number?

[Åke Sandgren]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 12:52 +0200, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> Åke Sandgren wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 00:05 -0400, Brock Palen wrote:
> >> I know someone must have asked this before, but we just rolled over 1
> >> million jobs, and already have over 1.3 million in gold.
> >>
> >> What is the max job id?  Is it just 32 bit int?  (2^32)/2-1? Just
> >> curios, as we do many tools based on job ids always getting bigger.
> > 
> > Yes, interesting problem. We are at 1.4M jobs and counting...
> > Fortunately that cluster is going out of service in a few month
> > (hopefully)
> > 
> > Anyone who knows?
> > 
> source torque 2.3.0
> 
> include/server.h:
>   - int  sv_jobidnumber;    /* next number to use in new jobid  */


Then I would like to see this get changed into an unsigned long.
Clusters are getting larger and jobs will flow through faster...

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