[Moabusers] creating exclusive reservation

[Lloyd Brown]

Hello all,

I'm getting started working with reservations, and am having an
interesting issue, most likely due to my inexperience.  We just are
finishing a hardware upgrade of our cluster, and want to put in a
reservation to use for running the Linpack Benchmark (for top500.org
ranking), while still allowing users to submit jobs.  We just want to
keep them from being scheduled during that time.

I used the following syntax to set a 14-day reservation:

> # mrsvctl -c -h ALL -a USER=root -n linpack_benchmark -s 15:00:00_8/25/06 -d 14:00:00:00 -D 'Linpack Benchmark after Hardware Upgrade' -E

And now, when I check on it, I get this:

> # mrsvctl -q linpack_benchmark
> 
> 
> Diagnosing Reservations
> RsvID                      Type Par   StartTime     EndTime     Duration Node Task Proc
> -----                      ---- ---   ---------     -------     -------- ---- ---- ----
> linpack_benchmark.1        User bas 13:23:28:27 27:23:28:27  14:00:00:00  615  615 2460
>     Flags: DEDICATEDRESOURCE,ISGLOBAL
>     ACL:   RSV==linpack_benchmark.1= USER==root+
>     CL:    RSV==linpack_benchmark.1
>     Accounting Creds:  User:root
>     Task Resources: PROCS: [ALL]
>     Comment: 'Linpack Benchmark after Hardware Upgrade'
>     Attributes (HostExp='ALL')

Looks like everything is alright.  However, when I, as a normal user
(non-root) submit a test job that says it needs 20 days (should overlap
with this reservation, right?), it starts running, instead of being
deferred until after the reservation is set to complete.

Any ideas?  I'm too new to this to really understand what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks,
Lloyd Brown