Can you modify your reservation to use SRCFG[] rather than the older SR* parameters?
If that doesn't help then please post the output of mdiag -r. Standing reservations can be easier to use than cron jobs once they are configured correctly. - Douglas ----- "Steve Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've used SR's with decent success for blocking out access during lab > times. > > Example: > SRCFG[bloc122mw] GROUPLIST=root > SRCFG[bloc122mw] STARTTIME=07:30:00 > SRCFG[bloc122mw] ENDTIME=17:00:00 > SRCFG[bloc122mw] DAYS=MON,WED > SRCFG[bloc122mw] HOSTLIST=bloc122-[00-32] > > I also do pbsnodes -o via cron to mark the nodes offline so that > Globus MDS > reports the correct number of available nodes. It also provides a > second > layer of protection against a job starting when it's not suppose to. > > It's a different story when using SR's in place of partitions. I > just > couldn't get it to behave as desired in terms of keeping jobs from > particular > classes separated, so I went back to partitions. > > // Steve > > > Tom Rudwick wrote: > > I recommend not using standing reservations. We found them to be > buggy and > > unreliable. I recommend using cron jobs to create regular > reservations. > > > > Tom > > > > > > [email protected] wrote: > >> I'm trying to use standing reservations (Maui 3.2.6p21) to avoid > running > >> jobs on certain nodes during work hours. For example: > >> > >> SRSTARTTIME[userver171] 07:00:00 > >> SRENDTIME[userver171] 16:00:00 > >> SRPERIOD[userver171] DAY > >> SRDAYS[userver171] MON TUE WED THU FRI > >> SRHOSTLIST[userver171] userver171 > >> SROWNER[userver171] USER:kim > >> SRMAXTIME[userver171] 5:00:00 > >> > >> I interpreted the above to mean that on weekdays jobs can only be > run on > >> userver171 by Kim between 07:00 and 16:00. > >> > >> This doesn't seem to work. Jobs continue to be placed on that > machine > >> during the reserved period. > >> > >> Is the assignment of jobs to nodes done dynamically or at the time > of job > >> submission? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mauiusers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers > _______________________________________________ > mauiusers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
