[torqueusers] Maui probs

[Kevin Van Workum]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Sorry to bother this list with what I think is a Maui questions, but
> I've so far been unable to subscribe to the mauiusers mailing list, and
> my message to help at supercluster.org has gone unanswered.  I hope someone
> here can help me out.
>
> I fired up a few thousand batch jobs via qsub last night.  This morning,
> after standing reservations should have excluded new jobs from running
> (in my mind at least), I marked all nodes offline:
>
>    sudo pbsnodes -o $(pbsnodes -a | egrep '^[a-z]')
>
> That worked fine.
>
> However, now I want to start things up again.  I cleared the offline
> flag for a bunch of nodes:
>
>    sudo pbsnodes -c huron tuba ruth ...
>
> and sure enough, pbsnodes -a shows them as free, for example:
>
>    tuba.wacker
>         state = free
>         np = 1
>         ntype = cluster
>         status = opsys=solaris7,...
>
> Unfortunately, I don't see any running jobs:
>
>    % qstat | wc -l ; qstat | egrep ' R ' | wc -l
>        2601
>           0
>
> I would have thought free nodes could start hosting jobs again.  I must
> be misunderstanding something.  Any suggestions appreciated.
>

Try restarting Maui.


>
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> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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