You can also enbale ONLY smp pe in some node. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Bob Tupper <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could change the > consumable to from YES to JOB > > > > > > On 02/21/2012 11:20 AM, Txema Heredia Genestar wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am having some problems to run threaded jobs in SGE 6.1u4. In our >> cluster, h_vmem is defined as a consumable attribute in all nodes. It is >> mandatory, all jobs must request it, with a default value of 6Gb. That >> constraint leads any "parallel" job sent to the cluster to try to reserve a >> lot of memory (h_vmem * slots). This is ok for most parallel processes (mpi >> and the such). But, sometimes, we need to run "threaded" jobs, where all >> jobs share a chunk of memory (everything on a single node). This leads to >> situations where I need to send an 8-threaded job that requires, say, 10 Gb >> of memory, but it cannot be scheduled because no node can handle a 80Gb >> request. When a memory request cannot be fulfilled, the typical message of >> "cannot run in PE "smp" because it only offers N slots" appears in qstat >> (where N is the maximum number of slots I wolud be able to use given the >> requested h_vmem size). >> >> This is the parallel environment I am trying to use: >> >> # qconf -sp smp >> pe_name smp >> slots 9999 >> user_lists test_users >> xuser_lists NONE >> start_proc_args /bin/true >> stop_proc_args /bin/true >> allocation_rule $fill_up >> control_slaves FALSE >> job_is_first_task FALSE >> urgency_slots min >> >> The most annoying part of all this is that this behaviour is not >> consistent: This morning I've been able to run a 6-threaded job requesting >> 10Gb of memory in a 48Gb node. But, in the afternoon, the same job using >> the very same command in the same node could not be run. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestion on how to deal with this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Txema >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://gridengine.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >
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