> Am 30.10.2015 um 10:40 schrieb Yuri Burmachenko <[email protected]>: > > Hallo to distinguished forum members, > > Recently we have a need to submit jobs in way that qsub request both > requestable variable hostname and parallel environment. > > For example if we submit ‘xterm’ job: > · $SGE_ROOT/bin/lx-amd64/qsub -V -cwd -b y -l hostname=host_in_grid > -pe somePe 1 xterm > > This kind of request results in a strange behavior of the scheduler – this > requests results to one of the below states of the submission: > > 1. xterm job opened as expected. > 2. There is a very long delay and then xterm opened. > 3. Job enters ‘qw’ state with similar to below error: > cannot run because it exceeds limit "/////" in rule "some_rule/1" > > cannot run in PE "somePe" because it only offers 0 slots > > In all of the above states the “host_in_grid” has enough free slots and the > quota rule “some_rule” is not related in any way to the consumable/request > able variable in the job submission request. > If we try to remove “some_rule” quota from the SGE quotas, then this error > picks up another rule and again states that its limit was exceeded. > NOTE: somePe parallel environment has enough free slots – it is initially > defined with 999 slots. > > Basically these “cannot run” messages do not reflect the real reason why the > job can’t be run, since all conditions are actually met – this is very > confusing, why this happen? > > We also found a workaround without the requestable variable “hostname” like > below when it ALWAYS work: > $SGE_ROOT/bin/lx-amd64/qsub -V -cwd -b y -q host_in_grid -pe testpe 1 xterm > > Any ideas why does this strange behavior occur? Is this some kind of a bug? > How this can be resolved?
Unfortunately I have no idea, but I observed already in former versions that instead of: -l h=foo -q bar it's better to request: -q bar@foo Maybe it is similar to the issue you faced. -- Reuti _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
