[Mauiusers] Backfill and node reservation

[Denis]

2010/11/15 Arnau Bria <arnaubria at pic.es>

> Hi Denis and all,
>
>
> I tried to reproduce it and here are results:
>
> # showconfig |grep -i backfill
> BACKFILLPOLICY[0]                 NONE
> BACKFILLDEPTH[0]                  0
> BACKFILLPROCFACTOR[0]             0
> BACKFILLMAXSCHEDULES[0]           10000
> BACKFILLMETRIC[0]                 PROCS
>
>
> $ pbsnodes td115.pic.es
> td115.pic.es
>     state = offline
>     np = 8
>     properties = slc5_x64
>     ntype = cluster
>     jobs = 0/13890645.pbs02.pic.es, 1/13892037.pbs02.pic.es, 2/
> 13894222.pbs02.pic.es, 3/13894254.pbs02.pic.es, 4/13892138.pbs02.pic.es,
> 5/13891930.pbs02.pic.es, 6/13892881.pbs02.pic.es
>
>
>
> $  qsub -q short -l nodes=td115.pic.es:ppn=8 -N backfill_test sleep.sh
> 13894790.pbs02.pic.es
>
> $pbsnodes -c td115.pic.es
>
> > what does a diagnose -p report?
> > Is it possible that the jobs which are running before your highest
> > priority job are not being backfilled but having a higher priority
> > instead due to the weights of the other metrics?
> > I see that the CREDWEIGHT is set to 1 while QOS for example is set to
> > 100.
>
>
> Job                    PRIORITY*   Cred( User:Group:Class)    FS(
> User:Group:  QOS)
>             Weights   --------       1(    1:    1:    1)     1(    2:
> 10:  100)
>
> 13894790                 100000   100.0(10000:  0.0:  0.0)   0.0(  0.0:
>  0.0:  0.0)
> 13894957                  -134     0.0(  0.0:  0.0:  0.0) 100.0(  0.0:
> -0.3:-133.)
> 13894958                  -134     0.0(  0.0:  0.0:  0.0) 100.0(  0.0:
> -0.3:-133.)
> [...]
>
> **** my job is first.
> **** farm is at 99,9%, only that slot is free.
>
> # pbsnodes td115.pic.es
> td115.pic.es
>     state = job-exclusive
>     np = 8
>     properties = slc5_x64
>     ntype = cluster
>     jobs = 0/13890645.pbs02.pic.es, 1/13892037.pbs02.pic.es, 2/
> 13894222.pbs02.pic.es, 3/13894254.pbs02.pic.es, 4/13892138.pbs02.pic.es,
> 5/13891930.pbs02.pic.es, 6/13892881.pbs02.pic.es, 7/13894957.pbs02.pic.es
>
>
> >
> > Also there are some groups with priority really high ( 100000)
> My group.
>
>
> Does it help in any way?
>
> Well...weird. Right now I dont have any other suggestion.

What if you increase the loglevel and try to check what maui is doing behind
the scene?



>
> Cheers,
> Arnau
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-- 
Denis Anjos,
www.versatushpc.com.br
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