MISER(1)MISER(1)NAMEmiser - Miser resource manager
SYNOPSISmiser [-vd] -c maxCPUs -m maxMemory -f configFile | -C | -h
DESCRIPTION
Miser starts the miser daemon. Miser is a deterministic batch scheduling
facility that can be used to balance batch and interactive cpu and memory
usage.
OPTIONS-v Verbose. This option results in additional output. It is useful in
conjunction with the -d option to help in diagnosing Miser
configuration problems.
-d This option requests debug output. Miser does not relinquish the
terminal. With this option turned on output is directed to screen
instead of system log.
-c maxCPUs
This is the maximum number of CPUs that miser can use. It is also
the maximum number of CPUs that any resource segment of the system
queue can reserve.
-m maxMemory
This is the maximum amount of memory that miser can use. It is also
the maximum memory that any resource segment of the system queue can
reserve. Memory reserved for miser is allocated from physical
memory. The amount of memory that miser use, should be less than
the total physical memory leaving enough memory for kernel use.
Also, it is recommended that the system should have at least the
amount of swap space as configured for miser, so that if miser
memory is in full use, system will have enough swap space to move
previous non miser submitted processes out of the way.
-f configFile
This option specifies the location of the configuration file.
-C This option can be used to release any miser reserved resources
after miser daemon is killed and before it is restarted.
-h Print the command's usage message.
OPERATION
The miser is a privileged command that starts the miser daemon. Miser
can be manually started from the command line with appropriate
options/config file(s).
It can also be conveniently started/stopped/cleaned up by using the
/etc/init.d/miser script. This script takes one of the following three
parameters: {start|stop|cleanup}.
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/etc/init.d/miser start
Starts Miser daemon with the options and config file specified by
the script.
/etc/init.d/miser stop
Kills Miser daemon with -INT signal and calls Miser daemon with -C
option to release reserved resources.
/etc/init.d/miser cleanup
Call Miser daemon with -C option for releasing reserved resources.
This can be useful if the Miser daemon is killed unintentionally.
SEE ALSOmiser(5), miser(4), miser_submit(1), miser_jinfo(1), miser_kill(1),
miser_qinfo(1), miser_move(1), miser_reset(1), syslogd(1M).
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