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a user has requested that we set MaxStepCount to "unlimited" or 16million to accommodate some of their desired workflows. i searched around for details about this parameter & don't see alot, and i reviewed
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any thoughts on this? can this successfully be applied to a partition or individual nodes only? i wonder about log files exploding or worse...</div>
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<td style="box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; vertical-align:top" width="75"><a href="http://www.unr.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:transparent; color:rgb(46,108,162)"><img alt="University of Nevada, Reno" style="box-sizing:border-box; border:0px; vertical-align:middle" width="75" src="https://www.unr.edu/assets/images/blockn-100x100.png"></a></td>
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