hi to all, i have the following problem: i have 19 cpus and there are 15 cms jobs running and 3 waiting i have the folloing policy at the site : xg009.inp.demokritos.gr:2119/jobmanager-lcgpbs-cms GlueCEPolicyMaxRunningJobs: 18 xg009.inp.demokritos.gr:2119/jobmanager-lcgpbs-dteam GlueCEPolicyMaxRunningJobs: 2 this means that there is a problem , why there are 3 cms jobs waiting? i check my CE and i see that: xg033.inp.demokritos.gr with np=4 state is busy and not free so it dont accept new jobs why is that? (the machine undrestand that there are 4 cpus on it and when the state was free i run 3 jobs but for some reason it turn its state to busy ) [root@xg009 server_priv]# pbsnodes -a xg016.inp.demokritos.gr state = job-exclusive np = 1 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3696.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux xg016.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cern #1 Thu May 26 12:45:05 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=2175 8404,nsessions=2,nusers=2,idletime=3915031,totmem=3067592kb,availmem=2052176kb,physmem=1027348kb,ncpus=1,loadave=1.00,rectime=1129295896 xg033.inp.demokritos.gr state = busy np = 4 properties = lcgpr ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3694.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3695.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux xg033.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=1922 7967 7981,nsessions=3,nusers=2,idletime=1466459,totmem=3064988kb,availmem=2532972kb,physmem=1024744kb,ncpus=4,loadave=2.00,rectime=1129295887 xg031.inp.demokritos.gr state = job-exclusive np = 2 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3692.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3693.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux xg031.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=1903 9622 10360,nsessions=3,nusers=2,idletime=5974614,totmem=3064972kb,availmem=2537136kb,physmem=1024728kb,ncpus=2,loadave=2.00,rectime=1129295904 xg038.inp.demokritos.gr state = busy np = 4 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3690.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3691.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux xg038.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=1910 10070 10827,nsessions=3,nusers=2,idletime=5973941,totmem=3064972kb,availmem=2508684kb,physmem=1024728kb,ncpus=4,loadave=2.00,rectime=1129295882 arxiloxos3.inp.demokritos.gr state = job-exclusive np = 2 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3688.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3689.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux arxiloxos3.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=2379 15452 16191,nsessions=3,nusers=2,idletime=5948325,totmem=3065492kb,availmem=2480548kb,physmem=1025248kb,ncpus=2,loadave=2.00,rectime=1129295896 arxiloxos4.inp.demokritos.gr state = job-exclusive np = 2 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3686.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3687.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux arxiloxos4.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=2379 28652 29390,nsessions=3,nusers=2,idletime=5946350,totmem=3065492kb,availmem=2475812kb,physmem=1025248kb,ncpus=2,loadave=2.00,rectime=1129295899 arxiloxos5.inp.demokritos.gr state = job-exclusive,busy np = 2 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3684.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3685.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux arxiloxos5.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=2378 10803 11545,nsessions=3,nusers=2,idletime=3797218,totmem=3065492kb,availmem=2423836kb,physmem=1025248kb,ncpus=2,loadave=2.00,rectime=1129295894 arxiloxos6.inp.demokritos.gr state = job-exclusive np = 2 properties = lcgpro ntype = cluster jobs = 0/3678.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr, 1/3697.xg009.inp.demokritos.gr status = arch=linux,uname=Linux arxiloxos6.inp.demokritos.gr 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Thu May 26 12:29:50 CEST 2005 i686,sessions=2389 26677 29620,nsessions=3,nusers=3,idletime=5950157,totmem=1554432kb,availmem=1033632kb,physmem=510216kb,ncpus=2,loadave=1.99,rectime=1129295888 do you have any idea what i can do? thanks xristos Christos Filippidis NCSR DEMOKRITOS Institute of Nuclear Physics office block 6(ktirion 6) Gr-15310 Agia Paraskevi GREECE Tel:2106503425 http://consult.cern.ch/xwho/people/117002 http://www.inp.demokritos.gr/~filippidisx/ ---------------------------------------------- "Institute of Nuclear Physics NCSR Demokritos" http://www.inp.demokritos.gr/