That solution requires working "db_dump" and "db_restore" executables, which don't appear to be available for the SoGE version.
My eventual solution was to remove the "sge_job" file and re-start the qmaster. Simon On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 6:40 AM, Luis Huang <lhu...@nygenome.org> wrote: > 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