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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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thanks!<br>
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