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Subject: Two policy changes on Franklin
Author: Helen He <yhe_at_lbl.gov>
Date: 2008-05-14 13:08:58
1) Process limits Effective on Wednesday, May 21, the virtual memory limits for processes launched from Franklin login nodes and batch jobs will be set to 2,097,152 kbytes (2 GB soft limit). This can be increased to a maximum of 4,194,304 kbytes (4 GB hard limit). To increase from bash or ksh shell: % ulimit -v 4194304 To increase from csh or tcsh shell: % limit vmemoryuse 4194304 Note: the CPU limit of 60 min has been enforced since April 22. 2) Auto logout of idle sessions Effective on Wednesday, May 21, idle login sessions on Franklin will be automatically logged out after 8 hours. Best Regards, Helen He NERSC User Services

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