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<div class="">That’s heavily workload dependent. We run a traditional HPC cluster and have a 7 day grace on home and 14 days on scratch. By setting the soft and hard limits appropriately we’ve slammed the door on many a runaway user / group / fileset. YMMV…</div>
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<div class="">On Jul 31, 2017, at 3:03 PM, Jaime Pinto <<a href="mailto:pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca" class="">pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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If your grace period is set to 7 days I can assure you that in an HPC environment it's the equivalent of not having quotas effectively. You should set it to 2 hours or 4 hours.<br class="">
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In an environment such as ours a runway process can easily generate 500TB of data or 1 billion inodes in few hours, and choke the file system to all users/jobs.<br class="">
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<div class="">Kevin Buterbaugh - Senior System Administrator</div>
<div class="">Vanderbilt University - Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education</div>
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