Re: limiting the CPU time allowed

[Craig Markwardt <craigmnet(at)cow.physics.wisc.edu>]

"A. Roubicek" <aro@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
> Hi JD, thank you for your reply,
> I am sorry, I was not clear. I mean that "if the job takes more than
> certain amount of CPU time, it should be killed". Is there any way to do
> it from within IDL? Some applications have an option in the calling 
> command to set this kind of limit.

If you are running under Unix you can set a CPU processing limit.
Under csh, you would do "limit cputime nnn" where nnn is the number of
CPU seconds.  You would do this in the shell *before* invoking your
IDL script.  Hopefully you can use this, or else the equivalent in
your shell.

Craig

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