Re: --timeout 200%

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Ozgur Akgun <ozgurakgun@gmail.com> wrote:
:
> With the above '--timeout 5%' will normally kill 5% of the jobs - even
> if they are not "bad", and that might less useful than just a percent
> of the median run time:
>
>   --timeout 200%
>
> which would kill all jobs taking more than twice as long as the median
> run time (using remedian to do median in finite memory).
>
> I do not think looking at the fastest jobs is a good indicator: You
> can have an odd job that is extremely fast while the median is much
> slower.

It is now implemented. Please give it a test.


/Ole