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supervisor_global_resources = resourcespec supervisor_global_resources =
resourcespec, resourcespec…
This string defines the global resources. It doesn't affect the total number of already reserved resources as they are tracked even after a restart. Resourcespec is a comma-separated string of specifications of the form:
global.resource=quantity
where resource is the name of a resource, and quantity is how many resources are available to the system. Typically these resources are licenses, but they could be something else.
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