[auton-users] LOU1 Job Priorities

[Michael J. Baysek]

Attention users:

If you are running any work on LOU1, please know that it has been
given lowest processing priority in favor of the work requested by
Artur.  This work will be completed before Wednesday.

Things to know:

* Your work will continue to run in the background of this work,
   but will only be given a small percentage of available compute
   cycles.

* If this work has any 'quiet times', your work will receive
   normal priority.

* If for some reason the memory is fully exhausted on the machine
   during this work, your jobs may be automatically terminated
   by the Linux Kernel OOM (out of memory) killer.  This is not
   likely or expected to happen during this work, but it is worth
   noting.

* If your work is not time-sensitive before Wednesday, we do
   suggest stopping your jobs at a convenient spot and resuming
   them after Wednesday.

* I can administratively pause any low priority (but long running)
   jobs, so if your job falls into that category, please let me
   know.  If you want to pause it yourself you may run

   killall -s SIGSTOP yourprocessname   # to pause and,
   killall -s SIGCONT yourprocessname   # to continue processing


Thanks for helping us free the clicks we need to make this important
deadline.

Mike


-- 
Michael J. Baysek
Systems Analyst
Carnegie Mellon University / Auton Lab
412-268-8939 - mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu
http://www.autonlab.org