common-workflow-language / common-workflow-language/cwltool

jobs exceeding max allocation of a resource are not limited or failed

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In [CWL CommandLineTool Document](http://www.commonwl.org/v1.0/CommandLineTool.html#ResourceRequirement), it is described that "If a job attempts to exceed its "max" resource allocation, an implementation may deny additional resources, which may result in job failure".

I set **ramMax: 2000** in my CWL, and use cwltool to run the CWL, the job exceed the max memory I set and achieve 6G memory. In my opinion, the job memory used should limited at a upbound of 2G.

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