[Moabusers] large number of jobs queued

wightman wightman at clusterresources.com
Tue Sep 26 09:04:31 MDT 2006


FYI, there are a few of these parameters that can be tweeked at
configuration time.  I'm not sure why they aren't documented but open up
configure and search on "max".

For jobs you can configure with "--with-maxjobs=<number>".

- Douglas

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:53 -0400, Justin Bronder wrote:
> On 9/25/06, Thomas G. Raisor <thunder at et.byu.edu> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I have about 25,000 jobs in my torque queue right now, but
>         moab is only
>         seeing roughly the first 4100 (using showq).  Jobs not shown
>         with showq
>         give the following error when I do a checkjob on them.
>         
>         ERROR:  cannot locate job 'jobid'
>         
>         I can run the jobs with qrun with no problems. This is a
>         vanilla install
>         of moab - are there defaults parameters I need to increase? I
>         was using
>         an older patch release of moab 4.5, updated to the latest and
>         get the
>         same behavior. Could it be torque not communicating its jobs
>         to moab?
>         torque version is 2.1.0 - (yes, I know I am a little out of
>         date, but I
>         haven't had any problems until now.) 
>         
>         Suggestions?
>         
>         Tom
>         
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> 
> It should be seeing the first 4096 jobs actually.  Anyways, you can
> adjust the
> default limits, which is something I had to do for partitions.  Refer
> to the
> following page and the MAXJOB variable.
> 
> http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/a.ddevelopment.shtml
> 
> -Justin. 
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