Julia v0.5.0 always killed on a memory limited cluster

[Alan Crawford]

I am using Julia v0.5.0 on a memory limited SGE cluster. In particular,  to submit jobs on the cluster, both h_vmem and tmem resource flags need to be passed to in qsub command. However, all of Julia jobs keep on being killed because workers seem to be very hungry for virtual memory and ask for it outside of the SGE scheduler. 

A more detailed description of the problem can be found in the last post in this thread. It seems that the best workaround (listed on this thread) is to change  #define REGION_PG_COUNT 16*8*4096 to #define REGION_PG_COUNT 8*4096 in src/gc-pages.c when compiling Julia. 

However, I am just a user of the cluster and don't have permission to compile Julia on it. Nor do i have access to machinery to compile my own binary . As such I am wondering if there could be a more user friendly option?

Two ideas come to mind:

1) Offer a low virtual memory for Julia binaries; or

2) Add a flag when opening julia flag that lets you set K where K is defined as REGION_PG_COUNT K*8*4096 ... or some other equivalent...

In particular, option 2 would really be addition to the language and greatly aid users - especially those without capacity to compile julia. If, for some reason, this is undesirable, perhaps option 1 would present the best short term fix?

[Florian Oswald]

This is affecting my work in exactly the same way. my jobs have been down on an SGE managed cluster since I upgraded to v0.5-xxx for other reasons. Some support on this would be very good.