HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits User's Guide

HP-UX WLM Duration Management Toolkit and HP-UX WLM Toolkit for Base SAS Software
Frequently asked questions
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Frequently asked questions
Following are various questions that may occur in using DMTK / SASTK.
I want a process to finish in five minutes. How do I set
that up?
Your discovery command feeds three values into wlmdurdc: a process
PID, a profile value for that process, and a desired duration. You want to
set the desired duration value to five minutes. This value must be in
seconds, so set it to 300. Also, be sure that the wlm_interval keyword is
set to a value less than 1/5 of your duration, or 60 seconds. (Its default
value is 60 seconds.)
For more information on discovery commands, see “Completing an
application within a certain duration (duration management)” on
page 114 and “Example discovery command” on page 123.
What’s the shortest job that can be managed?
For the purposes of duration management, your jobs should last at least
four or five times the wlm_interval value. This interval is 60 seconds by
default and should not be set less than five seconds.
Troubleshooting
If you encounter problems, check the syslog (/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log)
to determine what values the discovery command is sending to
wlmdurdc, as well as the values wlmdurdc sends to WLM.
For WLM messages in general, see the message log at:
/var/opt/wlm/msglog