Currently, there exist no enforced limit on the number of Tasks a user can create for a given Transformation, meaning it is very easy to (accidentally or otherwise) create very large (thousands or more) Tasks on a single Transformation. There is also no enforced limit on the number of such Tasks that can have ACTIONSrelationships to a givenTaskHub`, which can choke the compute services due to the bottleneck of the claiming code (reduced by #121, but not able to scale infinitely).
To address this, we should create server-side configurable limits to:
- the number of
waiting Tasks allowed on a Transformation at a time
- the number of
ACTIONS relationships on a TaskHub at a time
User-client side, this will mean that when a user calls AlchemiscaleClient.create_tasks(...), they will get back ScopedKeys for Tasks created until no more can be created for that Transformation; if a Task can't be created due to the limit, this will be reflected in the list of ScopedKeys returned, with a None given in its place.
Likewise, when a user calls AlchemiscaleClient.action_tasks(...), the method will action as many of the Tasks as it can up till the limit, then a None will be given for those Tasks that were not actioned.