The expected behavior would be that when there is
never an host with 12 slots free, that your cluster
will be filled up with 4 slot jobs, even when they have
lower priorities. The reservation you gave the 12 slot 
jobs will be attached at the end of that year. Hence 
I would assume that your 12 slot job will finally run
in one year (under the assumption that you have 
always running 4 slots jobs on all of your host).
You could try to submit without duration (s_rt) and 
set the default duration to the expected runtime.
Then I would assume that that the first 12slots job 
will begin reservation after the "default_duration"
periode (meaning that it begins to keep slots free,
or to backfill shorter jobs if there are any.) Don't 
forget -R y like you did before.

My 2 cents,

Daniel

Am 25.05.2012 um 11:10 schrieb Richard Ems:

> Hi list,
> 
> I searched through the mailing list and tried using google, but couldn't
> found an answer to my question.
> 
> The (simplified) situation:
> 
> We have a group of nodes with 12 slots.
> We submit there parallel jobs requesting 4 or 12 slots.
> We defined 2 PEs allocating 4 or 12 slots and associated to that group
> of nodes in one queue.
> Max_reservation is set to 20 (now increased to 50, what are the
> implications of this?).
> s_rt is set to 31536000 (which is one year time in seconds).
> default_duration was set to 8760 (one year also, changed now to 9999)
> 
> What we see now is that, despite setting a higher priority and asking
> for reservation with "-R y" when submitting jobs to the 12 slots PE,
> jobs previously submitted with lower priority and no reservation and
> asking for the 4 slots PE get started before the previous one.
> 
> Is this expected behavior or are we doing a configuration error? Or is
> it a bug? Or a feature?
> 
> We are using GE 6.2u5.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Richard
> 
> 
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