On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:03:49 +0100 Alejandro Lucero Palau <[email protected]> wrote:
> how many nodes and cores by node? which type of jobs? > > Having such a big amount of jobs, I guess most of them will be waiting > for resources. A backfiling cycle can take a really long cycle if you > set max_job_bf to 15000, but as the backfilling algorithm itself takes > some measures to avoid a long execution, I can not see a problem here. > By other hand, if you are submitting jobs with a high frequency, the > backfilling algorithm stops an starts from the beginning when a new job > is submitted. We're talking about 10 nodes of 32 cores each, but we're going to increase the node count. I'm already using SchedulerParameters=defer, since submission was already taking long.
