# Resource utilization exceeds limits

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/resource-utilization-exceeds-limits/486>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/resource-utilization-exceeds-limits/486 "2017-03-30T14:46:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![sscluster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@sscluster](https://community.openpbs.org/u/sscluster)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/resource-utilization-exceeds-limits/486/1 "2017-03-30T14:46:48Z")

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CentOS 7  
PBSPro 14.1.0

I am seeing the following log entry in regards to some of the jobs run on my cluster:

ncpus 2.27 exceeded limit 1 (sum)

The jobs continue to run, but would it be possible to configure the scheduler to kill jobs that exceed their requested resources?

Thank you,

SS

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**Author:** ![prakashcv13](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.openpbs.org/prakashcv13/32/65_2.png) [@prakashcv13](https://community.openpbs.org/u/prakashcv13)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/resource-utilization-exceeds-limits/486/2 "2017-03-30T15:14:29Z")

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Hi SS,

If you had $enforce cpuaverage in your MoM’s config file - your job would have been aborted.  
For various limits that you can apply on a job’s resource usage - you can go through “Placing Resource Limits on Jobs” in the Administrator Guide.

Thanks,  
Prakash

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**Author:** ![sscluster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@sscluster](https://community.openpbs.org/u/sscluster)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/resource-utilization-exceeds-limits/486/3 "2017-03-30T16:25:53Z")

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That’ll do the trick.

Thank you,

SS