[torqueusers] C scheduler -> maui help

[Chris Johnson]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Chris Johnson wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeff Blasius wrote:
> 
> > I'm new here too, so this may not be correct. I believe what you want
> > can be accomplished by setting
> > NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY CPULOAD
> > See:
> > http://www.clusterresources.com/products/maui/docs/5.2nodeallocation.shtml
> > 
> >        -jeff
> > 
> > 
> 
>      Closer.  No cigar yet.  Some jobs seem to get stuck in Q state if
> too many are queued at once.  For example, I have three nodes,
> queueing 4 jobs does the right thing in that one cpu from each node
> was sceduled before the second cpu on any node was scheduled.  However
> queueing 5 jobs put two in Q state and left them there.  
> 

     Closer.  Puting two together gets it almost right.  I'm using,
over and above the out of the box config,

JOBNODEMATCHPOLICY     EXACTNODE
NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY   CPULOAD

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