Jesse Becker <[email protected]> writes:

> This is a problem that has plagued me, and various people time and
> again, and every time it gets fixed, the method and cause seems to get
> lost in the aether.  I've hit it several times over the years, and each
> time the problem and solution see to vanish...

I'm afraid I don't understand what the problem and solution actually
are.

> I do seem to recall that the message about the PE is basically irrelevant,
> and entirely misleading.

In what circumstances?  (Presumably only if there's a bug.)

> Here is the problem:
>
>       $ qrsh -clear -w v -pe make-dedicated 4 -b y /bin/true
>       Job 1953957 cannot run in PE "make-dedicated" because it only offers 0 
> slots
>       verification: no suitable queues
>
> Yet:
>
>       $ qrsh -clear -w v  -b y /bin/true
>       verification: found suitable queue(s)

That's understandable for a variety of reasons, which qstat -j, or
possibly qalter -w p, will tell you with luck, but it's not always
obvious, e.g. with reservations shown by qsched.

> The problem turned out to be a typo in a complex name that had been
> assigned to the queues.

Is the real problem that qstat/qalter didn't show that?

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