Look into this https://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/gridengine-users/2008-October/020911.html
We had a similar problem and that fixed it for us. On 5/1/18, 11:25 PM, "users-boun...@gridengine.org on behalf of Simon Matthews" <users-boun...@gridengine.org on behalf of simon.d.matth...@gmail.com> wrote: After deleting all the jobs, it still won't schedule any new jobs. The qmaster "messages" file has this in it: 05/01/2018 20:19:51|worker|sgemasterU5|E|scheduler tries to schedule job 4409436.1 twice 05/01/2018 20:19:51|worker|sgemasterU5|W|Skipping remaining 156 orders But I can't delete 4409436: qdel -u build -j 4409436 The job -j of user(s) build does not exist Simon On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Simon Matthews <simon.d.matth...@gmail.com> wrote: > A little more info. > > After moving the spool directory and re-starting the qmaster, I > deleted all the jobs with qdel and the qmaster showed no jobs. > However, after a further re-start it now shows over 2396 active jobs, > with "-2251" available slots. I assume that somehow the history of > jobs finishing was lost so the qmaster thinks the jobs are still > active. I am trying another delete! > > Simon > > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Simon Matthews > <simon.d.matth...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am running SoGE 8.1.8, using BDB spooling. >> >> Last night the spool directory ran out of disk space (I think), >> causing a freeze of all jobs. I moved the spool directory (~4GB at >> that time) to another partition, with more space. >> >> However, jobs are still not running. The qmaster appears to be running >> and I think reading from the spool directory. >> >> I would like to clean out all the jobs (old and current) and start again. >> >> Is there a safe way to clean out the spool directory when using BDB >> spooling? I was not able to backup the configuration because SoGE >> doesn't provide a copy of db_dump and versions of this program from >> other distributions fail with an error relating to the version of the >> database. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Simon _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users ________________________________ This electronic message is intended for the use of the named recipient only, and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or protected from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this message including any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient, please notify us immediately by contacting the sender at the electronic mail address noted above, and destroy all copies of this message. Please note, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The organization accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users