Hi Sho, Thank you for looking into this. It would be nice to know what the memory use depends on. Best, Maurik On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Sho Uemura <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Was not aware this was a problem. Testing some fixes. The jobs that use 4 GB are all done for the moment, and I'm not submitting any more until this is figured out. > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Maurik Holtrop wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> While here at jlab, I was told in passing that our jobs on the Jlab farm are taking up too much memory. The farm systems have 2 GB per core (I think?) and some of our jobs are asking for 4 GB. That means that one job is actually using up the resources for 2. >> >> I am wondering if this is really a required foot print for our code, or whether there are ways to reduce the memory usage. For full out data processing of our real data, this could become a critical issue. >> >> What is the memory footprint of our reconstruction code, and what does it depend on? >> What causes it to be so large, can we reduce it? >> >> For the current MDC, perhaps it would be possible to split the SLIC step, which takes little memory, from the reconstruction step which takes a lot. This would increase the throughput on the farm, since more nodes would be available to us. >> >> Best, >> Maurik >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >> >> To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 >> > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1