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This is a very polite keyword that will take your system administrator off
your back. You can use SLEEp to make QS run only for a specified time interval of
the day (usually overnight). This you do as follows : suppose that most users go home
at about 1900 hours and come back in again at 0830 hours next morning. If you submit your
job using the unix command at 2000
and you give SLEEP 12 in your input file, QS will run for
24 - n = 12 hours (from 8:00 in the evening until 8:00 next morning) and then will
go to sleep for
n = 12 hours (till 20:00 in the evening). Note that the time at which the job
is started defines QS's sense of time (so it is critical that the job gets started at
the right time). VMS users must use the command line option /AFTER=... in their
submit command (but have a look at the help page on submit/after because there are
some timing peculiarities with VAX clusters).
NMG, January 2005