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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Dr. Stephen Childs,
Research Fellow, EGEE Project, phone: +353-1-8961797
Computer Architecture Group, email: Stephen.Childs @ cs.tcd.ie
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland web: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Stephen.Childs
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