Actually, I'm wrong. That isn't the behavior I'm seeing (blocking due to reserving the complex devel-short-medium-long-xlong). Scratch that.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Brian Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that the devel-...-xlong parameters being consumable is causing > unforeseen behavior with the way that reservations are working. After some > more testing and monitoring, I see that we're reaching our SLAs AND that > larger parallel jobs are making it through the queue in a timely manner. > What I saw were jobs whose only commonality was requesting, say, medium, > and hence 128 processor parallel job bound for free node set X blocked a > job bound for node set Y. Aside from a different strategy, all together, a > complex that is requestable, consumable, but not reservable would solve > this particular issue. Is that even possible? > > -Brian > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Dave Love <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Brian Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > I have a mix of high-throughput and long wait jobs. We classify and >> > prioritize jobs based on runtime. We use a jsv to set >> > >> > devel # job length < 1hr >> > short # job length < 6hr >> > medium # job length < 2day >> > long # job length < 1wk >> > xlong # job length > 1wk (goes to ACLed queue) >> >> [I'm surprised it's worth the trouble if there's the opportunity for >> backfilling, but fine if so.] >> >> > 8.1.1 has been fantastic, overall, so this is a fairly minor issue; >> > mostly me trying to eek out a couple more percentage points of >> > utilization :) >> >> Glad it's useful, but it does sound as if there's a problem with the >> reservation somehow from what you've described. >> >> -- >> Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ >> > > > > -- > Brian Smith > Sr. System Administrator > Research Computing, University of South Florida > 4202 E. Fowler Ave. SVC4010 > Office Phone: +1 813 974-1467 > Organization URL: http://rc.usf.edu > > -- Brian Smith Sr. System Administrator Research Computing, University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave. SVC4010 Office Phone: +1 813 974-1467 Organization URL: http://rc.usf.edu
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