Thanks everyone for your help so far and sorry if I don't quite follow all the
responses but I think I'm getting there. To review we normally run all of our
jobs on the "compute" nodes in our cluster. But I have one job type "mascot"
that I can run either on the compute nodes, or the interactive nodes (it just
communicates with some windows boxes doing the actual work so it doesn't really
take up any resources). As I understand it first off I can get rid of my
mascot.q (great! one less queue). I then setup a mascot complex (requestable
is TRUE). Only on my interactive exec hosts I add the mascot complex = TRUE.
I then setup in
sge_request so that -l mascot=false. Now whenever a user submits a job
it'll run in the hosts assigned to the various queues but not on the
interactive host as mascot is always false. When I submit my mascot jobs use
-l mascot, and these will then run on either compute or interactive hosts in
the cluster/
I also tried playing around with the forced complex and I'm not sure I
understand how it works. First I created a complex "mascot" as a BOOL,
relation ==, requestable FORCED, default was FALSE because...well thats what it
defaults to as you can values on non-consumables. I then added to the global
host configuration the consumable/fixed attribute mascot with a value of
false. When I submit a job using "qsub -w p -l mascot=true test.sh", "qsub -w
p -l mascot=false test.sh", or "qsub -w p test.sh" I always get an error that
are no suitable queues and that the job does not request 'forced' resource
"mascot" of host global. Remove the complex from the global host config and
everything works normally. Adding the mascot complex to all of my exec hosts
individually and trying the same submissions also results in the same message:
job does not request 'forced' resource "mascot" of host x. I'm surprised
because I thought setting requestable
meant you had to request the resource and that's what I thought I was doing
with the "-l mascot". It seems to be the same result when I assign the mascot
complex to a queue. And for the record I don't have anything set in my
$SGE_ROOT/$SGE_CELL/common/sge_request file.
Thanks,
Joe
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