Hi,

Am 05.04.2013 um 22:21 schrieb Fan Dong:

> Maybe someone here can clarify the concept of slots for me. I am very much 
> confused by the definition "The maximum number of concurrently executing jobs 
> allowed in the queue.  Type is number, valid values are 0 to 9999999.".
> 
> Is the queue here cluster queue or queue instance?  In my particular setting, 
> the host group @allhosts contains 4 hosts and 28 CPU in total.  Run 'qconf 
> -sq all.q', giving the following by the default. The slots is 1 -- what does 
> it really mean?
> 
> Does that mean 1 active job per queue instance?

Yes, in detail: one serial job. You could phrase it also "slots" = "allowed 
user processes" per queue instance, often set to the number of available cores 
in an exechost. For a parallel job you will need to request more than one slot 
by a parallel environment (PE) depending on the job requirements.


>  I have 4 queue instances and at the most I can have 4 jobs running 
> concurrently?  I am really not sure....
> 
> qname                 all.q
> hostlist              @allhosts
> seq_no                0
> load_thresholds       np_load_avg=1.75
> suspend_thresholds    NONE
> nsuspend              1
> suspend_interval      00:05:00
> priority              0
> min_cpu_interval      00:05:00
> processors            UNDEFINED
> qtype                 BATCH INTERACTIVE
> ckpt_list             NONE
> pe_list               make
> rerun                 FALSE
> slots                 1,[comp01=6],[comp02=6], [comp03=8],[comp04=8]

1 is the default for queue instances not listed after it. I.e. if you have an 
uniform cluster where each machine has 16 cores one could write:

$ qconf -sq all.q
...
slots 16

Nevertheless:

$ qconf -sq all.q
...
slots 42,[@allhosts=16]

would result in the same slot count when all hosts are listed in the hostgroup 
@allhosts.

-- Reuti


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