[Mauiusers] NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY = CPULOAD

[Jochen Ditterich]

Hi Jana,

Unfortunately, I am having the exact same problem and nobody has 
responded to my previous posts. Let's hope that we will have more luck 
this time.

I was planning on doing some debugging, but I didn't have a chance to do 
so yet...

Best,

Jochen.

Jana Uhlirova wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we'd like to submit jobs on a load balanced basis. We set 
> NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY to CPULOAD.
> When we submit a job and there are enough fully free nodes, then 
> everything is ok, the job is running. But if there aren't enough fully 
> free nodes - only partially free nodes are available, the job doesn't 
> run. It is in the idle state.
> 
> For example:
> A job requests -l nodes=4:ppn=3
> Available nodes (every node has 8 CPUs):
> Nodes#    Free CPUs
> r1i1n4#    4
> r1i1n5#    3
> r1i1n7#    6
> r1i1n8#    2
> r1i1n9#    2
> r1i1n12#    3
> r1i1n13#    3
> r1i1n15#    3
> 
> The requested resources are available, but the job doesn't run.
> 
> The output of checkjob 8970:
> 
> State: Idle
> Creds: user:black group:users class:batch qos:DEFAULT
> WallTime: 00:00:00 of 41:16:00:00
> SubmitTime: Thu Jun 11 15:01:53
> (Time Queued Total: 00:16:26 Eligible: 00:16:26)
> 
> StartDate: 00:00:01 Thu Jun 11 15:18:20
> Total Tasks: 12
> 
> Req[0] TaskCount: 12 Partition: ALL
> Network: [NONE] Memory >= 0 Disk >= 0 Swap >= 0
> Opsys: [NONE] Arch: [NONE] Features: [batch]
> 
> IWD: [NONE] Executable: NONE]
> Bypass: 0 StartCount: 0
> PartitionMask: [ALL]
> Flags: RESTARTABLE
> 
> Reservation '8970' (00:00:01 -> 41:16:00:01 Duration: 41:16:00:00)
> PE: 12.00 StartPriority: 16
> cannot select job 8970 for partition DEFAULT (startdate in '00:00:01')
> 
> We changed NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY from CPULOAD to MINRESOURCES and the job 
> started immediately. But we'd like to use load balance.
> 
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Jana Uhlirova
> 
> 
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