> Am 12.03.2019 um 15:55 schrieb David Trimboli <trimb...@cshl.edu>:
>
>
> On 3/5/2019 12:34 PM, David Trimboli wrote:
>>
>> On 3/5/2019 12:18 PM, Reuti wrote:
>>>> Am 05.03.2019 um 18:06 schrieb David Trimboli <trimb...@cshl.edu>
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at SGE limits, and I'm not sure when something applies to all
>>>> users or each user individually. I want to find out how to limit each user
>>>> to a certain number of slots across the entire cluster (just one queue).
>>>>
>>>> I feel like this isn't it:
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>> Name limit-user-slots
>>>> description Limit each user to 10 slots
>>>> enabled true
>>>> limit users * queues {all.q} to slots=10
>>>>
>>> limit users {*} queues all.q to slots=10
>>>
>>> In principle {all.q} wouldn't hurt as it means "for each entry in the
>>> list", and the only entry is all.q. But to lower the impact I would leave
>>> this out.
>>>
>> Ohhhhhhh! I didn't realize that {} meant to apply to each entry in the list.
>> That gives me everything I need. Thanks to you and Bernd.
>
> Now a followup question. I implemented this rule to ensure that no single
> user takes more than 90% of our available slots:
> {
> name limit90percent
> description NONE
> enabled TRUE
> limit users {*} to slots=536
> }
>
> (Our cluster has a total of 596 slots.) This worked fine until someone tried
> to submit a parallel environment job with the -pe option. On 16 out of our 24
> nodes, it still worked. But if they sent a job hard-queued to one of the
> upper nodes 17–24, it would never run, with this in the scheduling info:
What was the submission command? A plain '-q upper'? There was/is an issue
where you have to specify instead '-q "*@@upper"' for a hostgroup named @upper.
Or one can try to have a dedicated PE only for the upper nodes and request this
PE (i.e. in the queue configuration "pe_list …,[@upper=upper]".
-- Reuti
> cannot run because it exceeds limit "trimboli/////" in rule "limit90percent/1"
> cannot run in PE "threads" because it only offers 0 slots
>
> (My username is trimboli.) Now, it's quite possible that the upper nodes are
> set up differently than the lower nodes. The upper eight nodes were installed
> later than the others and have been treated differently in the past. I'd like
> to find what setting in the upper nodes is making this limit say that there
> are 0 slots when a PE job is run. Where can I look to find the culprit?
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