[Mauiusers] Multiple standing reservations with TASKCOUNT mutually exclude nodes from *all* users

[Wightman]

There was a bug in Maui affecting the way "DEDICATED" got processed. 
This has been fixed.  The latest snapshot should now fix this issue. 
Please let us know if it does not.

The fix was also applied to Moab users, although the alternate method of
setting FLAGS=DEDICATEDRESOURCE was still functional.

FYI:  the Maui snapshots are now available to all users who have
registered to download Maui.  If you haven't registered this can be done
at:

http://www.clusterresources.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi

The snapshots can be found by clicking on the Maui Snapshots (Beta)
link.

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:32, Chris Samuel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've whinged about this before, but it's still biting us whenever we try it
> again to check whether it's been fixed.
> 
> If you have two reservations which use TASKCOUNT and SPACEFLEX to reserve
> nodes and ACLs to permit access, Moab (and Maui I believe) seems to
> persistently put the reservations on the same nodes even if the ACLs are
> mutually exclusive (i.e. two different USERLIST's) and then nobody can use the
> nodes reserved. :-(
> 
> We're not the only ones affected, see:
> 
>  http://supercluster.org/pipermail/mauiusers/2004-June/001200.html
> 
> Here's a simple example which reproduces the problem:
> 
> SRCFG[sr1] PERIOD=INFINITY
> SRCFG[sr1] TASKCOUNT=1 FLAGS=SPACEFLEX
> SRCFG[sr1] ACCESS=DEDICATED
> SRCFG[sr1] USERLIST=csamuel
> 
> SRCFG[sr2] PERIOD=INFINITY
> SRCFG[sr2] TASKCOUNT=1 FLAGS=SPACEFLEX
> SRCFG[sr2] ACCESS=DEDICATED
> SRCFG[sr2] USERLIST=dbannon
> 
> results in:
> 
> node085   User      sr1.0.1053828        N/A    1   -00:00:02    INFINITE  Thu Sep 23 09:23:32
> node085   User      sr2.0.1053829        N/A    1   -00:00:02    INFINITE  Thu Sep 23 09:23:32
> 
> Worse still, node085 is already in use by our short queue reservation using a hostlist:
> 
> node085                    User     sque.0.1053831        N/A    1   -00:00:02    10:36:28  Thu Sep 23 09:23:32
> 
> SRCFG[sque] STARTTIME=08:00:00 ENDTIME=20:00:00
> SRCFG[sque] PERIOD=DAY DAYS=MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI
> SRCFG[sque] PROCLIMIT<=4 DEPTH=7
> SRCFG[sque] HOSTLIST=node084,node085
> SRCFG[sque] MAXTIME=00:15:00+*
> SRCFG[sque] ACCESS=DEDICATED
> 
> Help!
> 
> cheers,
> Chris
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