Ahh, ok, understood. In this case closing the queues at the
appropriate times is possibly the best thing to do.
Mike.
2009/5/18 Stephen Childs <[log in to unmask]>:
> Mike Kenyon wrote:
>>
>> I'm successfully draining our nodes down using the method you
>> describe. Just over a week ago, I issued
>>
>> setres -s 17:00:00_05/18 -e 15:00:00_05/19 -n block1
>> "node0[0-2].|node03[0-5]"
>>
>> 'showres' confirms this reservation:
>> block1.0 User - 7:11:43 1:05:11:43 22:00:00
>> 35/140 Mon May 18 17:00:00
>>
>> I see that the reserved nodes are empty (in contrast to the rest of
>> the cluster) aside from the odd 6-hour job and one 3-day job that will
>> complete shortly. Our queues are all still open, but longer jobs are
>> not running on the reserved nodes.
>>
>> Have you checked your reservation exists (and is sane) with 'showres'?
>
> Yes it seems to work fine from the torque/maui point of view. The problem is
> that as the queues are still open the info sys reports "open for business"
> and jobs get queued that may not get to run before their proxies expire.
> Maybe this isn't such a problem.
>
> Stephen
> P.S. in this case we are draining the whole site for a power outage.
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