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The RUNLIMIT parameter may not provide enough flexibility for certain types of event processing. We may expect the The majority of jobs in our pipeline to should complete on time, but some jobs get hung up and could take longer. We want to avoid having to resubmit longer running jobs that get killed off by the LSF scheduler. One solution is to provide a runtime estimate in addition to the RUNLIMIT. The argument syntax for the runtime estimate is '-We [hour:]minute'. Most jobs should The assumption is that most of your jobs within the complete with the runtime estimate time value. The estimate value is used for will also influence backfill. The scheduler will only terminate a job when it exceeds the RUNLIMIT, but not when it exceeds the estimate. Example of a job with a runtime estimate of 15 minutes and a RUNLIMIT of 1 hour:
bsub -We 15 -W 1:00 processEvent
Job <209332> is submitted to default queue <medium>.
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