[Mauiusers] Any limit to number of CLASSCFG entries?

[Bas van der Vlies]

The default is defined in:
  * include/msched-common.h
default staat op:

  * #define MAX_MCLASS 16

  * #define MMAX_CLASS 16



You have to  increase these values to handle more queues.  The default  
is 16 -3: 13 queues



Regards

On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Marc Noguera wrote:

> Hello again,
> sorry but I forgot to mention that I am using maui latest maui version
> maui-3.2.6p21 and torque 2.3.3 on a 64 bit Fedora Core 6 Sytem.
>
> Thanks again
> Marc
> Marc Noguera escribió:
>> Hello everyone,
>> at my department we are moving from pbs_sched to maui scheduler. We  
>> are
>> using torque's pbs_server and pbs_mom as resources managers.
>> I have modified maui.cfg file according to our previous configuration
>> using pbs_sched and created CLASSCFG[XXX] entries, one for each queue
>> that we use.
>> All of our nodes are mapped to only queue queue using an attribute in
>> file $PBSHOME/spool/server_priv/nodes file. This attribute is the  
>> same
>> as the name of the queue. For instance on of this queues qmgr list
>> output is:
>>
>> Qmgr: list que qdynamics
>> Queue qdynamics
>>        queue_type = Execution
>>        total_jobs = 1
>>        state_count = Transit:0 Queued:0 Held:0 Waiting:0 Running:1
>> Exiting:0
>>        resources_max.cput = 200:00:00
>>        resources_min.cput = 00:00:00
>>        resources_default.cput = 200:00:00
>>        resources_default.neednodes = qdynamics
>>        mtime = Wed Jan 21 17:50:52 2009
>>        resources_assigned.nodect = 1
>>        enabled = True
>>        started = False
>>
>>
>> Note that this queue is not started on purpose as it was not working
>> properly.
>> We have other queues mapped to nodes in the same way. In maui.cfg  
>> file I
>> have entered one CLASSCFG[] line for eache queue, leading to this:
>>
>>
>> DEFERTIME 0
>> CLASSCFG[parallel]
>> CLASSCFG[qdynamics6]
>> CLASSCFG[qdynamics7]
>> CLASSCFG[qgetab1]
>> CLASSCFG[qgetab2]
>> CLASSCFG[qstruct2]
>> CLASSCFG[qserq1]
>> CLASSCFG[qserq2]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet2]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet3]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet4]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet5]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet1]
>> CLASSCFG[qstruct1]
>> CLASSCFG[qdynamics]
>>
>> Which creates a class with default.feature=name of the  
>> queue&attribute
>> of the node and therefore, as far as I understant, maps queues to  
>> nodes.
>>
>> However when I submit a job to qdynamics queue or qstruct1 queue this
>> job is not mapped to the correct node but anywhere. Showconfig shows
>> this, on the CLASSCFG section.
>>
>> CLASSCFG[[NONE]]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[NONE]
>> CLASSCFG[[ALL]]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[NONE]
>> CLASSCFG[parallel]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[parallel]
>> CLASSCFG[qdynamics6]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qdynamics6]
>> CLASSCFG[qdynamics7]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qdynamics7]
>> CLASSCFG[qgetab1]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qgetab1]
>> CLASSCFG[qgetab2]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qgetab2]
>> CLASSCFG[qstruct2]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qstruct2]
>> CLASSCFG[qserq1]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qserq1]
>> CLASSCFG[qserq2]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[qserq2]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet2]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[transmet2]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet3]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[transmet3]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet4]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[transmet4]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet5]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[transmet5]
>> CLASSCFG[transmet1]  DEFAULT.FEATURES=[transmet1]
>>
>>
>>
>> I suspect that for some reason maui is not acquiring CLASSCFG  
>> qstruct1
>> and qdynamics. However, when I change the order of CLASSCFG entries  
>> by
>> puting "CLASSCFG[qdynamics]" entry in the third position in maui cfg,
>> then the two last CLASSCFG entries become not recognized.
>>
>> Is there any issue on the number of CLASSCFG entries that can be  
>> used?
>> or am I missing something?
>> BTW the other queues are working without any problem.
>>
>> Thank you all
>>
>> Marc
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