John,

We are trying to balance demand and available resources by adjusting
the number of jobs a single user can run. The demand was lower than
the resources available so I adjusted the number of jobs you can run
to 40. Thanks for pointing this out.
Jens

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Karro, John <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've launch 50 single-process jobs (each allocated for 20:00:00), but only
> 20 of them have been allowed out of the queue.  If I understand the showbf
> output for them, there are plenty of available nodes:
>
> Partition     Tasks  Nodes      Duration   StartOffset       StartDate
>
> ---------     -----  -----  ------------  ------------  --------------
>
> ALL             140     18      INFINITY      00:00:00  16:52:59_11/23
>
>
> Is 20 the current limit on serial jobs, or is there something else
> preventing more of these jobs being run?
>
>      John
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