How to configure gridengine with a consumable resource to reserve memory for a submitted job

This is fairly simple to do:
1) Modify the resource mem_free to be a consumable resource for the cluster
2) Then from an admin host run:

qhost | awk 'NR>3 {
       print "qconf -mattr exechost complex_values mem_free=" $8,$1
}'  | sh

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