I think If you increase the share of mygroup to something like 999 then the share that the root user gets will drop by a factor of 1000
pretty sure I've seen this before and that's how I fixed it Antony On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:47, Will Dennis <wden...@nec-labs.com> wrote: > Looking at output of 'sshare", I see: > > root@myserver:~# sshare -l > Account User RawShares NormShares RawUsage > NormUsage EffectvUsage FairShare > -------------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------- > ----------- ------------- ---------- > root 1.000000 420622 > 1.000000 0.500000 > root root 1 0.500000 0 > 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 > mygroup 1 0.500000 420622 > 1.000000 1.000000 0.250000 > subgroup_1 100 0.333333 420622 > 1.000000 1.000000 0.125000 > subgroup_2 50 0.166667 0 > 0.000000 0.333333 0.250000 > > It it OK that 'root' user has what looks like 50% shares of the entire > cluster, leaving the other 50% to all the other users? If it's not an > issue, OK, but if it is, any way to reduce the 'root' share? > > Thanks, > Will >