[Mauiusers] Limiting the number of processors by queue (multi-dimension fairness policies)

[Michael Homa]

One final question. I've  configured a long queue, one job per user:

  max_user_run = 1

However, a user (mhoma) has asked for an exception.  As far as I can tell,
torque has no exception. The rule applies to everyone wanting to run
something on that queue.  If I remove that setting from torque, does Maui have
something where say "let all users be restricted to one job except for
mhoma who is allowed to run three.

  CLASSCFG[long] MAXJOB[USER]=1 MAXJOB[USER:mhoma]=3

Michael Homa
Operating Systems Support and Database Group
Academic Computing and Communication Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
email:  mhoma at uic.edu

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Garrick Staples wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:35:27PM -0500, Michael Homa alleged:
> > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Garrick Staples wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Michael Homa alleged:
> > > > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Greenseid, Joseph M (IS) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > would setting resources_max.nodect=4 for the queue in torque do what you need?
> > > >
> > > > Hi Joe:
> > > >
> > > > Yes, that would work. But, and I didn't really explain this at all in my
> > > > note (was trying to be brief), I'm trying to have Maui do all the "policy
> > > > stuff" and have torque just define the resource(s). I'd like to avoid having
> > > > some policies in torque and some policies in Maui. If there's no way to do
> > >
> > > A practical reason to have as much policy in torque as possible is because of
> > > error messages.
> > >
> > > When you violate a policy in torque, the user gets immediate feedback because
> > > the job is rejected with an error message.
> > >
> > > When you violate a policy in maui, the job sits around deferred until someone
> > > bothers to check on it.
> >
> > Hi Garrick:
> >
> > That's a reasonable point. And, to boot, the messages in Maui are
> > incredibly cryptic; deciphering the output from checkjob can test one's
> > skill. But, just for my understanding/learning, does Maui not have the
> > capability of limiting the number of nodes per user or the number of
> > processors per user? Is what I'm encountering the result of a limitation
> > in Maui or is it that the features are there but I just haven't done it
> > correctly?
>
> I seem to recall that MAXPROC doesn't work on CLASSCFG.  I have this in my
> config:
>    CLASSCFG[long]          QDEF=long QLIST=long
>    QOSCFG[long]            MAXPROC=512 QFLAGS=DEDICATED
>
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> University of Southern California
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