The "-l nodes=x" option for qsub is shown in the user doc and in the examples (tests).
I haven't yet found a reason to set the max_running spec on a PBS server, as it appears to be limiting only. It doesn't control which nodes jobs execute on... that's more of a scheduling policy, and I believe it's shipped in an "DEDICATED" configuration, making sure not to schedule multiple jobs on the same node simultaneously.
It is possible that the max_running parameter accomplished this for you indirectly however. Can you check your maui.cfg file for the following line for me?
NODEACCESSPOLICY DEDICATED
thx-
Jeremy
At 12:03 PM 1/30/2003 -0500, Brian Williams wrote:
I found the answer to my previous parallel job problem, and felt I should post here because the defaults for PBS are not very good. One, is that in a PBS script, you should specify the number of nodes you need like: #PBS -l nodes=1 to run a job on a single machine (in my case)The other is that PBS queues and servers have an option called MAX_RUNNING which determines the maximum number of simultaneous jobs that the queue or server should push out to the cluster. In my starting setup, this variable wasn't set, and I'm not sure what the default is if not present, but setting it to the number of Nodes in my configuration worked great. start the qmgr then: set queue workq max_running = 20 set server max_running = 20 Hope this helps for the next version of Oscar. mix Brian E. Williams Software Developer and Systems Administrator Quantum Leap Innovations (302)894-8036 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://copland.udel.edu/~brianw ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
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