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Re: limiting the CPU time allowed [message #23885 is a reply to message #23878]

Mon, 26 February 2001 17:37

Craig Markwardt
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"A. Roubicek" <aro@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
> Hi JD, thank you for your reply,
> I am sorry, I was not clear. I mean that "if the job takes more than
> certain amount of CPU time, it should be killed". Is there any way to do
> it from within IDL? Some applications have an option in the calling
> command to set this kind of limit.

If you are running under Unix you can set a CPU processing limit.
Under csh, you would do "limit cputime nnn" where nnn is the number of
CPU seconds. You would do this in the shell *before* invoking your
IDL script. Hopefully you can use this, or else the equivalent in
your shell.

Craig

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		Re: limiting the CPU time allowed By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 27 February 2001 02:09
		Re: limiting the CPU time allowed By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 26 February 2001 17:37
		Re: limiting the CPU time allowed By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 26 February 2001 15:02
		Re: limiting the CPU time allowed By: A. Roubicek on Mon, 26 February 2001 14:36
		Re: limiting the CPU time allowed By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 26 February 2001 14:30

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