[Mauiusers] NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY MINRESOURCE not working

[Shawn Poindexter]

Our cluster has 8 nodes with 8GB of RAM and 8 nodes with 24GB of RAM.  I
want to set it up so that the jobs will default to the 8GB nodes if the
resources are adequate.  However, it is not working that way.  Even if the
queue is completely empty the jobs fill up the 24GB nodes before the 8GB
nodes.  As I understand it, NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY MINRESOUCE should do what I
want and fill the 8GB nodes first with the small memory jobs.

Here is my maui.cfg

# maui.cfg 3.2.6p13

SERVERHOST            arjuna.mps.ohio-state.edu
# primary admin must be first in list
ADMIN1                root

# Resource Manager Definition

RMCFG[**host name removed***] TYPE=PBS

# Allocation Manager Definition

AMCFG[bank]  TYPE=NONE

# full parameter docs at
http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/a.fparameters.html
# use the 'schedctl -l' command to display current configuration

RMPOLLINTERVAL        00:00:30

SERVERPORT            42559
SERVERMODE            NORMAL

# Admin: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/a.esecurity.html

LOGFILE               maui.log
LOGFILEMAXSIZE        10000000
LOGLEVEL              3

# Job Priority:
http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/5.1jobprioritization.html

QUEUETIMEWEIGHT       1

# Backfill: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/8.2backfill.html

BACKFILLPOLICY        FIRSTFIT
RESERVATIONPOLICY     CURRENTHIGHEST

# Node Allocation:
http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/5.2nodeallocation.html

NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY  MINRESOURCE
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