We switched from qbank to gold a long time ago so I'm not sure if this applies to qbank. In gold you can set the chargerate to 0 for a specific QoS, maybe something similar is possible in qbank.
r. On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 07:03:34 Brian Mendenhall wrote: > I have recently upgraded torque and maui on my cluster and have run into a > weird issue that I am having a hard time understanding why I can't find > any documentation on the subject. > > Maui: 3.3.1 (upgraded from 3.2.6) > RM: Torque 2.4.16 (upgraded from 2.1.12) > AM: Qbank: 2.11 (not upgraded) > > Previously, I had torque queues for users that are not charged time for > running their jobs, as an example, lets say people that belong to the unix > group 'lc_cmb' submit jobs to the 'cmb' queue using 'qsub -q cmb > script.pbs'. The maui.cfg entry for cmb was: > > CLASSCFG[cmb] NOAM=TRUE JOBFLAGS=SHAREDIFSINGLENODE > MAXJOB[USER]=300,420 > > and that basically turned off any charges for the cmb group. > > I know that qbank is working fine, and maui <-> interaction is fine because > regular users that do get charged time work fine. > > Is there a different way of turning off account management charges for > queues in maui/torque/qbank? > > The error in the maui.log file is pretty simple: > 09/20 21:49:48 INFO: transaction sent to AM > 09/20 21:49:48 ALERT: cannot create AM reservation for job '1324' > (request refused) 09/20 21:49:48 ERROR: cannot start job '1324' in > partition DEFAULT > > Awaiting 00000237 bytes -- Tue Sep 20 21:28:22 PDT 2011 > REQUEST=COMMAND=make_reservation AUTH=maui MACHINE=hpc ACCOUNT=lc_cmb > USER=sungjech WCLIMIT=86400 PROCCOUNT=16 QOS=DEFAULT CLASS=cmb_exe > NODETYPE=DEFAULT TYPE=maui JOBID=1324 JOBTYPE=job NODES=1 REPLY=00000072 > STATUSCODE=0 RESULT=sungjech does not have sufficient funds for job 1324 > > I find this weird: > [root@hpc-pbs maui]$ showconfig | grep '\[cmb\]' > CLASSCFG[cmb] DEFAULT.FEATURES=[cmb] > > [root@hpc-pbs maui]$ diagnose -v -c cmb > Class/Queue Status > > Name Priority Flags QDef QOSList* > PartitionList Target Limits > > cmb 0 [NONE] [NONE] [NONE] [NONE] > 0.00 [NONE] DEFAULT.FEATURES=[cmb] MAXJOBPERUSER=420,300 > > So, the maxjob configuration is there, but no JOBFLAGS or NOAM > configurations shown. > > ----- > Brian Mendenhall > Linux/HPCC Administrator > University of Southern California > _______________________________________________ > mauiusers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
