I look at this earlier, but hoped the MAXNODE option would work. MAXPROC limits will help our situation, but not solve it completely. Users could request half the number of processors per node across twice as many nodes which would block other jobs.
Thank you. Mark --0- On 10/05/2015 04:40 PM, Burkhard Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > MAXNODE and MAXNODEPERUSER don't work, this is an old problem, I have it > with torque 2.5.13 and maui-3.3.1. > > There is some info in the Maui manual, part 6.2.1.1, see the note on > MAXNODE in the table. > > The manual is here: > http://www.clusterresources.com/products/maui/docs/6.2throttlingpolicies.shtml > > My workaround was to formulate the limits in terms of > MAXPROC and MAXPROCPERUSER. It works that way. > > Regards, > Burkhard Bunk. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] Physics Institute, Humboldt University > Newtonstr. 15 > 12489 Berlin, Germany > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Michel Béland wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> Michel, Thank you for the reply. Sadly, JOBNODEMATCHPOLICY is set to >>> EXACTNODE. I haven't made any patches to Torque to solve >>> the inconsistencies with Maui. I've been thinking about downgrading Torque >>> to series 4 to see if that helps my problem. Mark >>> --0- [email protected] >> >> I was not talking about patches to Torque, but about patches to Maui. >> Obviously, you did not do these either. >> >> Downgrading to Torque 4 might help. With Torque 5, Maui sometimes thinks >> that a job submitted with -lnodes=4:ppn=12 only uses 4 >> processors, but I believe it thinks the job has been submitted with >> -lnodes=4:ppn=1. This happens only for running jobs after a >> restart of Maui. >> >> -- >> Michel Béland, analyste en calcul scientifique >> [email protected] >> bureau S-250, pavillon Roger-Gaudry (principal), Université de Montréal >> téléphone : 514 343-6111 poste 3892 télécopieur : 514 343-2155 >> Calcul Québec (www.calculquebec.ca) >> Calcul Canada (calculcanada.ca) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
