[Moabusers] MAXJOB and MAXPROC change ?

[wightman at clusterresources.com]

We'll try the same cofiguration here but can you send us the output of mdiag -u?

Thanks,

- Douglas

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Chris Samuel wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> We've got an interesting situation, we have:
> 
> USERCFG[DEFAULT]        MAXJOB=20:25
> USERCFG[DEFAULT]        MAXPROC=90
> USERCFG[DEFAULT]        MAXIJOB=5
> 
> So we want no user to be able to have more than 20/25 jobs running and never 
> any more than 90 CPUs over that number of jobs (to balance between the 
> parametric users and the large parallel users).  Nobody can have more than 5 
> jobs eligible to run (again because of the parametric users who could 
> inadvertently do queue stuffing).
> 
> It's worked in the past, but we've noticed now that under 5.0.0p3 and the 
> current 5.1.0rc2 snapshot that we have a user now running over 50 single CPU 
> jobs and with 5 idle jobs and heaps of blocked jobs (and no free CPUs).
> 
> If I lower MAXPROC to 50 then his idle jobs become blocked because he's 
> exceeded the MAXPROC limit, but MAXJOB doesn't seem to having any effect!
> 
> Help!
> 
> cheers,
> Chris
>