[torqueusers] process using more CPUs than requested

[Doug Johnson]

At Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:33:46 +0000,
Christopher Samuel wrote:
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> On 19/02/11 11:05, Gus Correa wrote:
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> > I thought the Torque pam module (pam_pbssimpleauth.so)
> > would prevent users to ssh to the nodes directly.
> 
> That's usually done to allow a user who has a job on the
> node to ssh in (either to check on it, or for broken MPI
> launchers which don't support the Torque TM interface -
> yes Intel MPI, I'm looking at you..).
> 

A slightly off-topic clarification.  Intel MPI uses pmi for process
startup and is supported by OSC mpiexec.  Just use '-comm pmi' on the
command line, or set the env variable MPIEXEC_COMM to pmi.

Doug

> What I would really like to see is a re-architecture of
> the cpuset support which would move to this model:
> 
> /dev/cpuset/torque/$user/$jobID
> 
> Then (SSH security model permitting) it would be nice
> if pam_pbssimpleauth could move such logins into the
> /dev/cpuset/torque/$user cpuset so at least they would
> be contained in the superset of all that users jobs.
> 
> Hmm, actually pbs_mom could even spot user tasks not
> in a cpuset and move them into them.. ;-)
> 
> cheers!
> Chris
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>     Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator
>  VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
>  Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
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