[Mauiusers] fairshare and backfill
Steve Young
chemadm at hamilton.edu
Thu Jan 31 10:18:14 MST 2008
Hi,
So perhaps my first question didn't make any sense ;-). Basically, I
am trying to figure out how to prevent a user from tying up all the
resources by submitting a large amount of jobs to the queue. If no
one else has requested any resources then as many jobs that can run
should. However, if someone else submits jobs I'd like for them to
get their fair-share of resources without having to wait for the
first users jobs to complete and free up resources.
Perhaps, I've answered my question with "fairshare" and should be
looking more closely at that. What I don't understand is if I were to
set a fairshare of lets say 25% per user, how would this effect the
queue system if no one else was running jobs. Essentially, I'd want
this user to get 100% of the resources until someone else were to
submit. Here is the policy I'd like to simulate:
A user is guaranteed up to 32cpu's or 32Gb of ram. Above that, jobs
will get backfilled. Backfilled jobs will get suspended as more users
utilize the queue.
Perhaps, I have this all wrong and should be thinking about it
differently. I'd love to see some examples of what others have done
to remedy this situation. Thanks in advance,
-Steve
On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Steve Young wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to figure out how to make the following work within
> our cluster using torque/maui:
>
>
> I'd like a user to be able to submit as many jobs as they like.
> However, they should only be allowed up to 32cpu or 32gb of memory.
> After that if there are idle resources then the rest of their jobs
> can be backfilled on idle nodes.
>
> If another user submits jobs they should get the same policy and
> pre-empt any backfilled jobs (if that's required to meet the 32cpu
> or memory limit).
>
> So basically, I think this should be fairly common. I want to run
> as many jobs as possible on idle resources but only guarantee the
> jobs that fall under the MAXPROC/MAXMEM policy. I've implemented
> the MAXPROC/MAXMEM policy but it appears backfill won't work for
> the remaining jobs. So I am assuming backfill has to abide by the
> MAXPROC/MAXMEM policy I have in place. Can anyone give me some
> pointers to the proper way to implement this? Thanks in advance!
>
> -Steve
>
>
> [root@ maui]# cat maui.cfg (edited for some content)
> # maui.cfg 3.2.6p14
>
>
> # Resource Manager Definition
>
> RMCFG[JAKE] TYPE=PBS
>
>
> RMPOLLINTERVAL 00:00:30
>
> SERVERPORT 42559
> SERVERMODE NORMAL
>
> # Admin: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/a.esecurity.html
>
>
> LOGDIR /var/log/maui
> LOGFILE maui.log
> LOGFILEMAXSIZE 100000000
> #LOGLEVEL 3
> LOGLEVEL 2
> LOGFILEROLLDEPTH 5
> STATDIR /var/log/maui/stats
> SERVERHOMEDIR /usr/maui/
> TOOLSDIR /usr/maui/tools/
> LOGDIR /var/log/maui/
> STATDIR /usr/maui/stats/
> #LOCKFILE /usr/maui/maui.pid
> SERVERCONFIGFILE /usr/maui/maui.cfg
> CHECKPOINTFILE /var/log/maui/maui.ck
>
> # Misc configs
>
> ENABLEMULTINODEJOBS TRUE
> JOBMAXOVERRUN 00:01:00
> #SYSTEMDEFAULTJOBWALLTIME 1:00:00:00
> USEMACHINESPEED ON
> #PREEMPTPOLICY CHECKPOINT
> PREEMPTPOLICY SUSPEND
> CREDWEIGHT 1
> CLASSWEIGHT 1
> QOSWEIGHT 1
> RESCTLPOLICY ANY
>
> # Job Priority: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/
> 5.1jobprioritization.html
>
> QUEUETIMEWEIGHT 1
>
> # FairShare: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/6.3fairshare.html
>
> FSPOLICY DEDICATEDPS
> FSDEPTH 7
> FSINTERVAL 86400
> FSDECAY 0.80
>
> # Throttling Policies: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/
> 6.2throttlingpolicies.html
>
> # NONE SPECIFIED
>
> # Backfill: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/8.2backfill.html
>
> BACKFILLPOLICY BESTFIT
> RESERVATIONPOLICY CURRENTHIGHEST
> #RESERVATIONPOLICY NEVER
> RESERVATIONDEPTH 50
> RESDEPTH 32
>
> # Node Allocation: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/
> 5.2nodeallocation.html
>
> NODEACCESSPOLICY SHARED
> #NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY MINRESOURCE
> #NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY MAXBALANCE
> NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY FASTEST
> #NODEAVAILABILITYPOLICY UTILIZED
> NODEAVAILABILITYPOLICY COMBINED
> NODEMAXLOAD 1.0
> NODELOADPOLICY ADJUSTSTATE
>
>
> # QOS: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/7.3qos.html
>
>
> QOSCFG[qm] PRIORITY=100 QFLAGS=PREEMPTEE
> QOSCFG[md] PRIORITY=100 QFLAGS=PREEMPTEE
> QOSCFG[faculty] PRIORITY=1000 QFLAGS=PREEMPTOR
> QOSFEATURES[qm] hamilton g03
> QOSFEATURES[md] hamilton
>
> # Standing Reservations: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/
> 7.1.3standingreservations.html
>
> # SRSTARTTIME[test] 8:00:00
> # SRENDTIME[test] 17:00:00
> # SRDAYS[test] MON TUE WED THU FRI
> # SRTASKCOUNT[test] 20
> # SRMAXTIME[test] 0:30:00
>
> # Creds: http://clusterresources.com/mauidocs/6.1fairnessoverview.html
>
> # USERCFG[DEFAULT] FSTARGET=25.0
> # USERCFG[john] PRIORITY=100 FSTARGET=10.0-
> # GROUPCFG[staff] PRIORITY=1000 QLIST=hi:low QDEF=hi
> #
> # Groups
> #
> GROUPCFG[faculty] PRIORITY=1000 QLIST=faculty QDEF=faculty
> GROUPCFG[hamilton] PRIORITY=10
> GROUPCFG[users] PRIORITY=10
> #
> # Classes (queue's)
> #
> #CLASSCFG[main] QLIST=md:qm
> CLASSCFG[main] QLIST=md:qm:mercury MAXPROC=32,64
> MAXMEM=32768,65536
> CLASSCFG[hamilton] QLIST=md:qm
>
>
>
> torque config
> -------------------
>
> [root@ maui]# qmgr
> Max open servers: 4
> Qmgr: print server
> #
> # Create queues and set their attributes.
> #
> #
> # Create and define queue main
> #
> create queue main
> set queue main queue_type = Execution
> set queue main Priority = 100
> set queue main resources_default.neednodes = main
> set queue main resources_default.walltime = 24:00:00
> set queue main enabled = True
> set queue main started = True
> #
> # Create and define queue hamilton
> #
> create queue hamilton
> set queue hamilton queue_type = Execution
> set queue hamilton resources_default.neednodes = hamilton
> set queue hamilton resources_default.walltime = 24:00:00
> set queue hamilton enabled = True
> set queue hamilton started = True
> #
> # Set server attributes.
> #
> set server scheduling = True
> set server default_queue = main
> set server log_events = 511
> set server mail_from = adm
> set server query_other_jobs = True
> set server resources_default.ncpus = 1
> set server resources_default.walltime = 24:00:00
> set server scheduler_iteration = 60
> set server node_check_rate = 150
> set server tcp_timeout = 6
> set server job_nanny = True
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