Steve,

  I think there are different uses of "interactive" - an interactive batch
job is a batch job.  Anything that goes into a batch queue should have
whatever the limit for the queue is - like 240 hours for the serial queue.  

  We have talked about setting a limit for interactive usage on the head
node, but I don't know if that was ever implemented - Jaime or Robin may
know.

  Which "quick tutorial" are you referring to - we may need to review it.  

Dave

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Subject: 2-hour limit on interactive jobs

The "quick tutorial" says there's a limit of 2 hours for an interactive 
job, but then it shows a PBS file requesting 50 hours for an interactive 
job.  Do you intend to make the 2-hour limit firm, or will it serve only as 
a default that can be overridden with -l walltime=hh:mm:ss?

Steve