hi tom, i couldn't find your original mail, but found the patch http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/mauiusers/2008-June/003405.html
it's working great. speed is now limited again by gold interaction, but at least i now get approx 2 jobs/sec, so a 4 time increase. thanks a lot!! stijn > If you search the maui list archives for my asynchronous job start patch > you can increase that speed greatly. > > Tom > > > Stijn De Weirdt wrote: > > hi all, > > > > (this is a crosspost to both maui and torque users list) > > > > we are having issues with the job start rate using maui+torque. starting > > a job takes on average 2 seconds, which is slow for what our users are > > dumping in our queues. > > > > with a job start i mean the following cycle > > 04/01 10:01:08 MRMJobStart(374900,Msg,SC) > > 04/01 10:01:08 MPBSJobStart(374900,gengar,Msg,SC) > > 04/01 10:01:08 > > MPBSJobModify(374900,Resource_List,Resource,node088.gengar.gent.vsc) > > 04/01 10:01:10 MPBSJobModify(374900,Resource_List,Resource,1) > > 04/01 10:01:10 INFO: job '374900' successfully started > > 04/01 10:01:10 INFO: command sent to server > > 04/01 10:01:10 INFO: response received from server > > > > i've already tried to follow the "large cluster" tuning tips to see if > > it helps, but no real result. (the only tip that might solve the > > problemn is the asyncstart option from moab ;). (we have a 200 node, 8 > > core/node cluster (i actually don't think this is "large")) > > > > anyway, before i dig in the code looking for options, i'm wondering what > > other people are seeing as minimal start time, so i know if it is > > possible at all. > > > > many thanks, > > > > stijn > > > > _______________________________________________ > mauiusers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers -- The system will shutdown in 5 minutes. _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
