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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

How to maximize license utilization?

I my team, 4 FPGA design engineers are sharing 1 license server for Quartus II. We often run into license conflict. Most of the time we can resolve this problem by just announcing 'I am compiling'. But one of our team members is on the other side of the earth, sometimes we cannot tell whether he is running an over-night compilation. Sometimes his over-night batch compilation can be ruined by license conflict.

Does anyone know a non-disrruptive way to detect whether a floating node license is currently in use? Can we add this way to our compilation batch commands to automatically avoid license conflict?

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    Altera_Forum
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    Hi drdr6

    I used your way and it works!

    I got this message when the license conflict occurs.

    All instances of floating feature <name> are currently in use, waiting for one to become available...

    This message shows up for several times and finally the process goes on. I do not need to look into it anymore. This is really a good way!

    Thank you very much!