Hi,

Am 07.05.2013 um 19:09 schrieb Stephen Spencer:

> Good morning.
> 
> I'm administering a cluster of machines with SGE (6.2u5, from the RHEL 
> distro) and have a question concerning the scheduler's behavior. (I'm rather 
> new to SGE.)
> 
> On this cluster, users can and do log in (via 'ssh') and run computational 
> tasks on cluster nodes, which ties up resources but not an SGE 'slot' because 
> the tasks aren't submitted through SGE.
> 
> My question is this: does SGE take into consideration the current load 
> average on a node when assigning tasks? For example, given two nodes with 
> equivalent numbers of slots, and one node has a load average of 10 and the 
> other 0, will SGE send a waiting job to the node with less load?
> 
> I see "load_thresholds   np_load_avg=1.75" in the output of "qconf -sq all.q" 
> and am guessing that if the value of "np_load_avg" on a given host, as SGE 
> calculates it, is greater than 1.75, tasks will be assigned elsewhere first, 
> but that's only a guess. Confirmation, or clarification of what this means, 
> would be wonderful.

The explanation you can get from `man queue_conf`.

-- Reuti


> Thank you.
> 
> Best, 
> -- 
> Stephen Spencer
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