ARCHIVED: Forward resource limits from your shell to your batch job on Big Red II at IU

On Big Red II at Indiana University, user resource limits set in the shell (with ulimit in bash, or limit in tcsh) are not automatically forwarded to batch jobs on the Extreme Scalability Mode (ESM) or Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM) compute nodes.

To enable the forwarding of user resource limits, set the APRUN_XFER_LIMITS runtime environment variable to 1 (one) by adding one of the following lines (depending on the shell) to your job script:

• In bash, add:

  export APRUN_XFER_LIMITS=1
  

• In tcsh, add:

  setenv APRUN_XFER_LIMITS 1
  

For example:

• ESM job (bash shell):

  #!/bin/bash
  #PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=32
  #PBS -l walltime=00:30:00
  #PBS -q cpu
  #PBS -j oe
    
  export APRUN_XFER_LIMITS=1  
  aprun -n 32 ~/my_code
  

• CCM job (tcsh shell):

  #!/bin/tcsh
  #PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=16
  #PBS -l walltime=00:30:00
  #PBS -l gres=ccm
  #PBS -j oe  
  
  setenv APRUN_XFER_LIMITS 1
  module load ccm
  ccmrun ~/my_code
  

For more about the APRUN_XFER_LIMITS runtime environment variable, see its entries in the aprun and ccmrun manual pages:

man aprun | less -p"APRUN_XFER_LIMITS"
man ccmrum | less -p"APRUN_XFER_LIMITS"