Maybe you should file an enhancement request with Microsoft. I find it odd that the MS Job Scheduler has no mechnism to set limits for memory utilization for jobs via the template mechanism. NOTE: This is not a criticism, but a request, as I know the implementationof such a feature can be tricky. However, I know for sure that Workload Managers such as PBS and LSF give administrators the ability to set constraints on the memory resource, and for mission critical systems this feature is almost as important as any other constraint.
I thought that maybe the lack of this functionality was just an oversight in the GUI Wizard, so I tried to export a Job Template to XML and then add the following line:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<JobTemplate Name="MaxMemTemplate" Description="Test" CreateTime="9/11/2009 3:30:34 PM">
<TemplateItem PropertyName="RuntimeSeconds" Default="86460" MinVal="0" MaxVal="86460" />
<TemplateItem PropertyName="Priority" Default="Highest" ValueRange="Lowest,BelowNormal,Normal,AboveNormal,Highest" />
<TemplateItem PropertyName="Project" Default="ProjectOmega" ValueRange="ProjectOmega" RequiredValues="" />
<TemplateItem PropertyName="MaxCores" Default="1" MinVal="1" MaxVal="4" />
<TemplateItem PropertyName="MaxMemory" Default="100" MinVal="100" MaxVal="500" />
</JobTemplate>
But, when I attempted to import the file, I recieved the following error...
Illegal job template property Maximum Memory.
