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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Kim Borgman
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:38 AM
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Subject: RUN AWAY JOB

Had a job last nite with displays run away and cause system to lock,
causing
us to do a restart.  Like 800,000,000 lines.

Is there a way to limit a job to a set number of CPU seconds to prevent
this
?

Or any other slick ideas ?

Donna wrote:
> you might want to consider monitoring your cpu usage...  
> ...this has saved me more than once because a run-away 
> job is likely to consume the entire box.

Well, that might be true for a single-processor system, but since most
jobs in an MPE environment would be running only a single process at any
given time, it would only "use up" one of the processors on a
multiprocessing system.  

As for the question about how big to make your OUT.HPSPOOL file limit,
make it VERY BIG.  As Donna implied, the goal isn't to limit the size of
reports, it's to prevent the system from hanging in the event something
gobbles up all your disk space.  If your system is still up and
responding, you can manually abort jobs, purge files, etc.

John Clogg

P.S., Remind me to avoid the Albuquerque bus station.

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