[Mauiusers] fairshare not so fair (Maui version 3.2.6p19)

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Michael Galloway wrote:

> but, should the jobs not queue up in the order they will run:

Indeed, 'showq' should list the jobs based on their priorities.

> i would expect either user kgh or hab to execute before user jia 
> gets job 910 run, no?

Depends on the amount of influence that fairshare has on the total 
priority for each job (FSWEIGHT). You can check the priority 
components with 'diagnose -p'.

But I have just spotted a problem in your 'diagnose -f' output: you 
don't have any targets set for either users or groups, so the 
fairshare component will most likely be 0. You need something like:

USERCFG[DEFAULT] FSTARGET=10
GROUPCFG[DEFAULT] FSTARGET=10

in the config file; this will set a target of 10% for either 
user-based or group-based calculations - modify the values at will.

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Bogdan Costescu

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