[Mauiusers] Fairshare policy help

[Steve Traylen]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to configure the fairshare policy or a solution, so  
> that users who submit 100 jobs can not monopolize the cluster. The  
> cluster consists of 32 dual processor nodes. Torque-2.0.0p8 and  
> maui-3.2.6p16 are installed on a system running Centos 4.   All  
> users are in the group students and right now, there is only one  
> queue.  There are no restrictions on the number of jobs a user can  
> run and it is a FIFO operation.
>
> UserA submits 100 jobs and monopolizes the cluster and also has  
> jobs in the queue.  UserB submits 10 jobs and has to wait until all  
> of userA's jobs, both running/queued, have finished before userB  
> jobs will run.  I want to be able to properly weight the jobs in  
> the queue, so that even if userA's jobs have been queued long,  
> userB's jobs will run first.
>

Mary,

   I gave a short 30m tutorial on Torque and Maui the other day which  
might answer some of your questions hopefully?

   http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py? 
contribId=34&sessionId=21&materialId=slides&confId=3738

   the TorqueMauiTutorial* documents are all the same, just different  
formats. The .mov format is probably the best.

    Steve

> It seems the fairshare policy with historical usage would be the  
> way to go, but I am not sure if I have the selected the correct  
> parameters or configured them properly.   Here is the relevant  
> maui.cfg parameters I have enabled.
>
> QUEUETIMEWEIGHT       10
>
> FSPOLICY              PSDEDICATED
> FSDEPTH               4
> FSINTERVAL           00:06:00
> FSDECAY               0.50
>
> FSWEIGHT       1
> FSUSERWEIGHT  1
> FSGROUPWEIGHT 1
> USERCFG[DEFAULT]   FSTARGET=70    ( hoping this give any user a  
> fairshare target of 70.  Is this the parameter I should be tweaking  
> the most?)
>
> Any help would be great.
> Thanks
> Mary Ellen
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Mary Ellen FitzPatrick
> Systems Analyst Bioinformatics
> Boston University
> 24 Cummington St.
> Boston, MA 02215
> office 617-358-2771
> emergencies 617-797-7856 mfitzpat at bu.edu
>
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Steve Traylen
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