[torqueusers] Allocating resources by CPUs

[Garrick Staples]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:57:29PM -0400, Martins, Flavio alleged:
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org
> [mailto:torqueusers->bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of Garrick
> Staples
> >Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:48 AM
> >To: torqueusers at supercluster.org
> >Subject: Re: [torqueusers] Allocating resources by CPUs
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:08:58AM -0400, Martins, Flavio alleged:
> >>     Resource_List.ncpus = 20
> >>     Resource_List.neednodes = 8
> >>     Resource_List.nodect = 8
> >>     Resource_List.nodes = 8
> >
> >8 20-CPU nodes?  That's a log of horsepower!
> >
> >I think you have an extra default ncpus in there somewhere :)
> >
> I have been desperately trying every config change I see in the archives
> of this mailing list. Someone suggested setting the resource_list.ncpus
> to a high value for a similar problem, so I tried it.
> 
> 20 is the total cpu count I have (5 nodes / 4 cpus/node). I want torque
> to find me 8 available cpus (and I don't care on which nodes).
> 
> Maybe I need to set the resource_list.ncpus to 1? I'm not yet familiar
> with what these parameters really mean.

Unset it.