is there a way to change the walltime for currently running PBS job

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Farhat picture Farhat · Nov 4, 2011 · Viewed 26.6k times · Source

I underestimated the amount of time a job would take. Would it be possible to change the time limit for a job while it is running?

Answer

dbeer picture dbeer · Nov 23, 2011 
qalter jobid -l walltime=X

You can read the qalter docs here.

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