[torqueusers] Queue configuration question

[scoggins]

Is there a way to not allow the bypass?

If you implement the interactive tag on the queue will that mean it  
will know that the -I option was  passed to qsub.  In the documents  
using the -I option will set an PBS environment variable to let you  
know they are using it interactively.  Can that be something I could  
check for in a prologue script and have that script alter the job to  
the interactive queue?

Is this an option anyone have tried?

Thanks

Jackie

On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Garrick Staples wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:57:24PM -0400, Troy Baer alleged:
>> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:36 -0700, scoggins wrote:
>>> I have a cluster and I want to have interactive queues and batch
>>> queues.  I am running torque-1.2.0p2-1.caos and I have the following
>>> queue configuration:
>>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> What I want is the following behavior to occur:
>>>
>>> qsub -I <script>        Goes to the interactive queue by default
>>> qsub <script>            WIll go to the batch queues - geophys or
>>> geochem  which ever one is specified in the script to run on.
>>>
>>> The only queue that has limits is interactive.  I want the routing
>>> queue to be able to submit all interactive jobs to the interactive
>>> queue and only allow batch (non-interactive) jobs to run on the  
>>> other
>>> queues.
>>>
>>> Please advice.  Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> I don't think that's possible with TORQUE currently -- AFAIK, it's  
>> not
>> possible to use whether a job is interactive or not to make a queue
>> routing decision.  That being said, people ask me for something like
>> that on a regular basis, and it *would* be a very handy feature to  
>> have.
>> For example:
>>
>> # to enable
>> qmgr: set queue myqueue interactive = ( True | False )
>>
>> # to disable
>> qmgr: unset queue myqueue interactive
>>
>> The default should be that a queue will accept both interactive  
>> and non-
>> interactive jobs.  I have no idea how easy/hard it would be to
>> implement, though.
>
> Easy to implement, but what is the point?  Users can trivially bypass
> any enforced policy based on interactive.
>
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