Using SGE 6.2u3 Short jobs as requested by h_rt requesting a lot of slots do not obtain a reservation or run even on an empty cluster when they are the highest priority job. The minimum requested time for a job appears to be proportional to the number of slots requested
1 slot(PE) works at 1 second requested 2 slots 3 seconds buggy 4 seconds OK 3 slots 5 seconds buggy 6 seconds OK 4 slots 7 seconds buggy 8 seconds OK 6 slots 11 seconds buggy 12 seconds OK 8 slots 14 seconds buggy 15 seconds OK 12 slots 22 seconds buggy 23 seconds OK 16 slots 29 seconds buggy 30 seconds OK 24 slots 44 seconds buggy 45 seconds OK 32 slots 59 seconds buggy 60 seconds OK 48 slots 89 seconds buggy 90 seconds OK 64 slots 119 seconds buggy 120 seconds OK 96 slots 178 seconds buggy 179 seconds OK 128 slots 238 seconds buggy 239 seconds OK 192 slots 357 seconds buggy 358 seconds OK 256 slots 476 seconds buggy 477 seconds OK A job with the problem can be detected by running qalter -w v on it. The report will claim it cannot run because each PE only offers 2147483648 slots. > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-H" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-X" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-A" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-W" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-F" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-P" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-O" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-1" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-J" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-D" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-T" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-K" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-M" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-L" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-I" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-N" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-B" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-E" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-C" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-G" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-KLB" because it only offers 2147483648 slots > Job 785731 cannot run in PE "qlc-2" because it only offers 2147483648 slots The above output does not appear with qsub -w v only qalter -w v _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
