Submit a job requiring limits - Deadline Cloud

Submit a job requiring limits

You apply a limit by specifying it as a host requirement for the job or job step. If you don't specify a limit in a step and that step uses an associated resource, the step's usage isn't counted against the limit when jobs are scheduled..

Some Deadline Cloud submitters enable you to set a host requirement. You can specify the limit's amount requirement name in the submitter to apply the limit.

If your submitter doesn't support adding host requirements, you can also apply a limit by editing the job template for the job.

To apply a limit to a job step in the job bundle

  1. Open the job template for the job using a text editor. The job template is located in the job bundle directory for the job. For more information, see Job bundles in the Deadline Cloud Developer Guide.

  2. Find the step definition for the step to apply the limit to.

  3. Add the following to the step definition. Replace amount.name with the amount requirement name of your limit. For typical use, you should set the min value to 1.

    YAML
      hostRequirements:
    amounts:
    - name: amount.name
      min: 1
    JSON
    "hostRequirements": {
    "amounts": [
        {
            "name": "amount.name",
            "min": "1"
        }
    }
}

    You can add multiple limits to a job step as follows. Replace amount.name_1 and amount.name_2 with the amount requirement names of your limits.

    YAML
      hostRequirements:
    amounts:
    - name: amount.name_1
      min: 1
    - name: amount.name_2
      min: 1
    JSON
    "hostRequirements": {
    "amounts": [
        {
            "name": "amount.name_1",
            "min": "1"
        },
        {
            "name": "amount.name_2",
            "min": "1"
        }
    }
}

  4. Save the changes to the job template.