Good practices

Overview

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Questions

• How can we make the best use of the resources at the Analysis Facility

Objectives

• To always consider the good practices, specially when working remotely

Resource Limitations on a running a job: and HTCondor may configure the system to prevent using all the resources on a machine.

Jobs may see

• A private (non-shared) /tmp and /var/tmp directory

• A private (non-shared) /dev/shm

• A limit on the amount of memory they can allocate, above which the job may be placed on hold or evicted by the system.

• A limit on the amount of CPU cores the may use, above which the job may be blocked, and will run very slowly

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Key Points

• Make a good use of the resources at the analysis facility is important to keep it working properly