Hi Chris, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi folks, > > We've just migrated to fairshare and one of the things we've been > puzzling over is how to show users what their fairshare status is. > > With quotas it was pretty easy, we had a bar-graph showing how far > through the quarter they were, and another bar-graph per project that > showed the percentage of quota burnt so far this quarter. > > After 6 years of running like that it's hurting our heads to think > differently about how to display it. > > It's also complicated as we are using Fair Tree (thanks Ryan et. al!) > and so we think we should show users their priorities back up the tree. > > I'm even wondering if we should not worry about showing them that and > instead just educate them about the priority of queued jobs instead. > > How do other sites handle this? > > All the best, > Chris We use fairshare without Fair Tree and with all users having the same number of shares. Occasionally we have users complaining about the system being unfair, particularly when other users are able to profit from backfill. The problem is that users often just look at the number of jobs someone is able to run, regardless of the resources being used. To help the user understand their current fairshare/priority status, I usually point them to 'sprio', generally in the following incantation: sprio -l | sort -nk3 to get the jobs sorted by priority. Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
