[torqueusers] taking node offline w/o killing running job

[Andrew J Caird]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Paul Raines wrote:

>
> How does one take a node offline w/o killing running jobs.  I
> want to make sure no new jobs get started on the node but
> want to let the running jobs finish.  Doing 'pbsnodes -o' kills
> any jobs on the nodes.  Once no jobs are on it, I want to apply
> some updates needing a reboot and then I will put it back online.

We've used "qmgr -c 's n nodename state=offline'" in the past with 
success.  But you can't set it back to 'busy' once you do.

--andy