[torqueusers] torque-1.2.0p6 - massive emails and job nanny

[Tony Vu]

There are no special configure options required.  It worked fine for  
me when I issued "set server job_nanny=true" in qmgr.

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Tony Vu
HPC Systems Engineer
San Diego Supercomputer Center
858-822-5491
tonyv at sdsc.edu

On Sep 21, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Simon Gao wrote:

> when tried enabling job_nanny, I got following error:
>
> Qmgr: set server job_nanny=T
> qmgr: Syntax error - cannot locate attribute
> set server job_nanny=T
>                                     ^
>
> The torque version is 1.2.0p6.  Is there parameters required while  
> compiling torque to add the attribute?
>
> Simon Gao
>
>
> Garrick Staples wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:27:56PM -0700, Tony Vu alleged:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Like some people on this list, our have users received multiple   
>>> emails in the past when their jobs completed.  We just recently   
>>> upgraded to patch 6 and we are still seeing this problem.  After   
>>> browsing through this list, I read that the atttribute  
>>> "job_nanny"  needs to be turned on to alleviate this problem  
>>> since by default it  is not set.
>>>
>>> From what I understand, Torque will continually send multiple  
>>> kill/ cancel/delete signals to an exiting job if for some reason  
>>> it cannot  communicate with the mother superior node on the  
>>> initial try.  Is  this correct?  If I set the job_nanny attribute  
>>> to true will only the  initial job delete signal be acknowledged  
>>> and subsequent ones be  ignored?  Is this an option that needs to  
>>> be turned on before  compiling Torque in the configure script or  
>>> is support for it  compiled in by default?
>>>
>>> Also, is a server restart required if this server attribute is  
>>> set or  is it dynamic?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, job_nanny causes subsequent deletes to be ignored.  It's not a
>> compile-time option, just type 'set server job_nanny=T' into  
>> qmgr.  It
>> does not require a server restart.
>>
>>
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