Two policy changes on Franklin

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From: Helen He (yhe_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: 05/14/2008

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    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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