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The previous exercises on limit/inlimit all effect affect how tasks are constrained.
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When a family is limited, the child tasks are unconstrained. In this case, only two family families can run at at a time. All the tasks in the family can start at once
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Let us modify our suite definition file:
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# Definition of the suite test.
suite test
edit ECF_INCLUDE "$HOME/course"
edit ECF_HOME "$HOME/course"
edit SLEEP 20
limit fam 2
family lf1
inlimit -n fam
task t1 ; task t2 ; task t3 ; task t4; task t5 ; task t6; task t7; task t8 ; task t9
endfamily
family lf2
inlimit -n fam
task t1 ; task t2 ; task t3 ; task t4; task t5 ; task t6; task t7; task t8 ; task t9
endfamily
family lf3
inlimit -n fam
task t1 ; task t2 ; task t3 ; task t4; task t5 ; task t6; task t7; task t8 ; task t9
endfamily
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What to do
- Edit the changes i.e. cp -r f5 lf1; cp -r f5 lf2; cp -r f5 lf3;
- Replace the suite definition
- In ecflow_ui , observe the effects
- How could you change suite to also limit tasks as well as families. i.e. only allow 1 task to run in each family?
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