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From: bh@sgi.com (Bent Hagemark)
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Subject: Re: NQS question: answer and further questions
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.164058.2110@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 16:40:58 GMT
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In article <1990Aug22.154058.911@urz.unibas.ch> doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>In article <9008220412.aa14401@VGR.BRL.MIL>, 
> XBR2D96D@DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobi der Rechnerschrat) writes:
>
>> 
>>   I've heard that NQS is available in 3.3. Is NQS in the standard
>>   software, or is it an option?
>
>Our sales rep told me that it is an option. Price SFr. 1390.--
>
>We want to run it in conjunction with a CONVEX CX batch implementation, 
>and the prerelease I had did not work properly. I have to 
>admit that this was before 3.3, and things changed a lot. 
>
>Could someone of SGI commment on the following: 
>
>Both CRAY and CONVEX NQS implementations communicate using a so-called 
>mid (machine id), which is maintained as node name. In contrast to 
>this, SGI used the internet number, giving problems on both other 
>implementations. Is this still true or did the implementation change ? 
>Further, I'd like to know which limits are supported. Because setrlimit is 
>now part of the kernel, it should support far more features than the 3.2 
>version... 
>
>Regards, 
>Reinhard


1) NQS is available as an option.  It's called "4D/NQS".

2) 4D/NQS requires 3.3

3) 4D/NQS simply uses the IP number as the mid.

4) Limits supported:

	a) all of the setrlimit(2) limits:

		cpu time		RLIMIT_CPU
		file size		RLIMIT_FSIZE
		data			RLIMIT_DATA
		stack			RLIMIT_STACK
		core			RLIMIT_CORE
		resident set size	RLIMIT_RSS

	b) nice(2)

	c) non-degrading process scheduling priority, schedctl(2) NDPRI

	d) processor (on MP machines), sysmp(2) MP_MUSTRUN

Bent