X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/a31c1accfc353ed6bb3c9982ee694f98f6c965ec..535856c28a12bb07dc986b980b0f4ccfdfd25640:/sdk/cwl/arvados_cwl/__init__.py

diff --git a/sdk/cwl/arvados_cwl/__init__.py b/sdk/cwl/arvados_cwl/__init__.py
index bf419dd9b6..131795ee2c 100644
--- a/sdk/cwl/arvados_cwl/__init__.py
+++ b/sdk/cwl/arvados_cwl/__init__.py
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ def arg_parser():  # type: () -> argparse.ArgumentParser
 
     parser.add_argument("--submit-runner-ram", type=int,
                         help="RAM (in MiB) required for the workflow runner job (default 1024)",
-                        default=1024)
+                        default=None)
 
     parser.add_argument("--submit-runner-image", type=str,
                         help="Docker image for workflow runner job, default arvados/jobs:%s" % __version__,
@@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ def main(args, stdout, stderr, api_client=None, keep_client=None,
         if api_client is None:
             api_client = arvados.safeapi.ThreadSafeApiCache(api_params={"model": OrderedJsonModel()}, keep_params={"num_retries": 4})
             keep_client = api_client.keep
+            # Make an API object now so errors are reported early.
+            api_client.users().current().execute()
         if keep_client is None:
             keep_client = arvados.keep.KeepClient(api_client=api_client, num_retries=4)
         runner = ArvCwlRunner(api_client, arvargs, keep_client=keep_client, num_retries=4)