thank, Govind. Indeed qrerun doesn't work. I've deleted all the pilots. Elena On 18 Jul 2012, at 12:27, Govind Songara wrote: > Hi Elena, > > For normal jobs, qrerun put any assigned wn job to back in queue for further scheduling for new slot. > Check man page for more details. > > I tried it long time ago, but i think grid job dont work in this way , like atlas's one, where pilot might have think job is killed after few hours? > > Cheers > Govind > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Elena Korolkova <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Steve > > the wn was set offline last night, the problem is fixed and it is back online but jobs are still in the queue. > qrun requires free wn's , so it worked for a couple of jobs but then there is a problem because we don't have free job slots. > > Alastair reminded me that this are pilots and can be killed. > > Thank you > Elena > > On 18 Jul 2012, at 11:44, Stephen Jones wrote: > > > Do you use Torque? > > > > Here are some ideas: > > > > 1) If I recall right, qrun <job> will force the job to run, even > > if the node it gets on is overallocated. All you have to do is stop > > more jobs going on the node. Eventually, one will end and the > > new job will get its full share. > > > > 2) It is possible to remove the job attribute that shows what > > node a job is allocated to. I don't know the commands offhand, > > but I did it once or twice. I'll look it up. > > > > 3) For now, put the blackhole node offline, or turn it off. > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > On 07/18/2012 11:26 AM, Elena Korolkova wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> we have 2000 atlas analysis jobs in a batch queue which are allocated to a black hole wn. > >> We have no free wn's to manually assign them. > >> Is there a way to avoid deleting the jobs? > >> > >> Your help is appreciated very much. > >> > >> Elena > >> > >> > >> __________________________________________________ > >> Dr Elena Korolkova > >> Email: [log in to unmask] > >> Tel.: +44 (0)114 2223553 > >> Fax: +44 (0)114 2223555 > >> Department of Physics and Astronomy > >> University of Sheffield > >> Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom > > > > > > -- > > Steve Jones [log in to unmask] > > System Administrator office: 220 > > High Energy Physics Division tel (int): 42334 > > Oliver Lodge Laboratory tel (ext): +44 (0)151 794 2334 > > University of Liverpool http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/hep/ > > __________________________________________________ > Dr Elena Korolkova > Email: [log in to unmask] > Tel.: +44 (0)114 2223553 > Fax: +44 (0)114 2223555 > Department of Physics and Astronomy > University of Sheffield > Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom > __________________________________________________ Dr Elena Korolkova Email: [log in to unmask] Tel.: +44 (0)114 2223553 Fax: +44 (0)114 2223555 Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sheffield Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom