> > I have two issues with our maui installation (maui-3.2.6p21 and > > torque-2.1.11, both compiled from scratch running on an Ubuntu > > system). > > > > We have a setup where all available machines are in the queueing > > system but only dedicated computer-servers are running calculations > > all the time. Desktop machines (with users in front of them) are > > available for calculations only after-hours and on weekends (with the > > exception of jobs run by the user of the desktop). > > > > I implemented this setup through statements like: > > > > NODECFG[machine1] MAXLOAD=1.8 > > > > SRCFG[machine1] USERLIST=user1 > > SRCFG[machine1] OWNER=USER:user1 > > SRCFG[machine1] HOSTLIST=boron > > SRCFG[machine1] PERIOD=DAY DAYS=MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI > > SRCFG[machine1] STARTTIME=9:00:00 ENDTIME=18:00:00 > > SRCFG[machine1] ACCESS=shared > > > > in maui.cfg. This works very well - in principle. However there are > > two situations where maui doesn't get it right. > > > > 1) The maui process is restarted. > > When I restart maui for some reason it completely ignores all > > reservations right after startup, only after some time has passed the > > configuration works as expected. This often causes desktop machines to > > start calculations even though they should be kept available for the > > user actually sitting in front of it. > > At the moment my work around id to disable the queue in torque and > > re-enabling it after maui has run for a couple of minutes - works fine > > but is not very convenient.
We recently moved to starting moab in a paused state with the option: -P 3600 (with a 1 hr timeout in case we forget to un-pause). It was an undocumented feature in moab but may be documented now. Maui might support this or someone could develop a patch. > > > > 2) Weekends. > > Sometimes maui will start jobs on Friday evenings (Fri, 6pm - see > > configuration above) that actually run longer than Monday 9am. This, > > of course, causes users to find a job running on 'their' machine when > > they return after the weekend. I have not yet found a way to fix this. > > I suspect it might be a problem of maui's 'horizon' - It might not > > know on a Friday night what is supposed to happen on the next Monday > > morning. You should be able to fix this with the DEPTH parameter - at least DEPTH=3 I think. SRCFG[machine1] DEPTH=10 Cheers, Gareth, CSIRO ASC _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
