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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have just experienced strange behaviour with qmgr. We currently have a node which is rebooting itself constantly. To take the system out of the cluster to diagnose the problem, I have specify the following command:</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">qmgr -c 's n node-name state=down'</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For a few moments, once the qmgr command is issued, subsequent "pbsnode -a" commands show node-name "down". But for some reason, it then shows the node as "free" again.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Has anyone seen this behaviour? I realize we are running a little behind with the patch level, but we are running torque-1.2.0p1 and maui-3.2.6p11.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When there is such a failure (this has occurred a few times in our cluster), is there a way (other than qmgr) of temporarily removing nodes in which deleting the node in the server_prive/nodes file and restarting pbs_server using the "-t create" argument is not necessary?</FONT></P>
<P><B><I><FONT FACE="Script MT Bold"></FONT></I> <FONT FACE="Script MT Bold"> <U> </U></FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Script MT Bold">Stewart Samuels</FONT></U></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Script MT Bold"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Script MT Bold">(908) 231-4762</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Script MT Bold"> email: Stewart.Samuels@Sanofi-Aventis.com</FONT></B>
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