We occasionally get this in our site, and it is pretty catastrophic. Most users have switched to qrsh to avoid the bug. I agree that it happens in batches, for periods of 5-10 minutes. More posts describing the problem are starting to show up on google, since I first ran into it about a year ago.
I tried adding the "-t 1" option to define a range_list, but that did not help. Most recently, I tried stopping the qmaster and starting it again. That seemed to fix the problem, but that's not a very good solution. We probably wont see the issue again for months. It seems network-load or nfs-load dependent, but I have no data to back up that claim. Our cluster uses RHEL5.4 and SGE 6.2u5. Thanks, Brad On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Daniel Povey wrote: > I have been getting occasional errors when using qsub -sync y. It prints out > the error message: > > Unable to initialize environment because of error: range_list containes no > elements > Exiting. > > This is not reproducible, but seems to occur in batches. This is with GE > 6.2R5. > Looking for this online gives little information that is useful-- it seems to > be a bug in qsub. > Is anyone familiar? What is the best way to debug this? I don't have root > on the machines concerned. > > Dan > > > <ATT00001..txt> _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
