[torqueusers] Torque job number increment?

[Garrick Staples]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:43:12PM -0500, Amitoj G. Singh alleged:
> 
> I am using Torque 2.3.3 with Maui 3.2.6. I recently noticed that Torque is 
> not incrementing the job numbers by 1. I noticed this while parsing 
> through the accounting logs. I found that 80% of the time the job numbers 
> do increment by 1 but then the other increment is not consistent at all. 
> Sometimes the increment is in hundreds or thousands and at other times, 
> only a single digit.

It is possible to generate an invalid job with qsub which gets a new jobid but
is never fully queued.  Such a job would never get an accounting record.
Perhaps a user is scripting job submissions and messed up?

 
> I noticed that there is a "next_job_number" attribute in the 
> pbs_server_attributes which I never modify.

Not likely related.

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Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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