Modifying the walltime of a running job in Torque

The attribute qalter in Torque is a useful tool in helping to modify the attributes of the job or jobs specified by job_identifier on the command line.

One of the more commonly use of qalter is to modify the walltime of a running job in Torque. For example

# qalter jobid -l walltime=5:00:00

For more information on qalter, see qalter from Adaptive Computing