<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dear Torqueusers,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">How are memory requirements setup on
Torque 2.1.10? </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I just added the mem=5000mb command
to my PBS script. I have a few nodes in the cluster with 8 GB of physical
memory. These nodes are members of the "medium" queue. I
thought this job would be allocated to one of those nodes. But it is not.
I get a NoResources problem.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">From the Maui command checkjob</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">...</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">checking job 392</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">State: Idle EState: Deferred</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Creds: user:nabdws group:users
class:medium qos:DEFAULT</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">WallTime: 00:00:00 of 99:23:59:59</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SubmitTime: Tue Apr 29 14:14:46</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> (Time Queued Total: 00:24:36
Eligible: 00:00:00)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Total Tasks: 2</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Req[0] TaskCount: 2 Partition:
ALL</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Network: [NONE] Memory >= 0
Disk >= 0 Swap >= 0</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Opsys: [NONE] Arch: [NONE] Features:
[d1850]</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dedicated Resources Per Task: PROCS:
1 MEM: 2500M SWAP: 16G</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IWD: [NONE] Executable: [NONE]</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bypass: 0 StartCount: 0</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">PartitionMask: [ALL]</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Flags: RESTARTABLE</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">job is deferred. Reason: NoResources
(cannot create reservation for job '392' (intital reservation attempt)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Holds: Defer (hold
reason: NoResources)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">PE: 16.97 StartPriority:
24</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cannot select job 392 for partition
DEFAULT (job hold active)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">...</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Job script:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">---------------------------</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">## ***** Parallel run *****</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">##</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">#PBS -q medium</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">#PBS -m ea</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=2</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">#PBS -l mem=5000mb</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.....................................................................</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">qmgr -c "p s" gives</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">create queue medium</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium queue_type = Execution</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium Priority = 40</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium max_running = 10</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_host_enable = False</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_hosts = node49</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_hosts += node48</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_hosts += node43</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_hosts += node42</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_hosts += node41</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium acl_hosts += node50</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium resources_max.vmem
= 32gb</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium resources_default.nodes
= 1</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium resources_available.nodect
= 40</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium enabled = True</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set queue medium started = True</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">#</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">set server pbs_version = 2.1.10</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">----------------------------------------------------</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">pbsnodes -a gives </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">--------------------------------</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[...}</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">node42</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> state = free</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> np = 2</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> properties = d1850</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> ntype = cluster</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> status = opsys=linux,uname=Linux
node42 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64,ses</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sions=4321 5627,nsessions=2,nusers=2,idletime=724411,totmem=4826752kb,availmem=1962804kb,physmem=8169096kb</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">,ncpus=4,loadave=0.08,netload=4294967294,state=free,jobs=?
0,rectime=1209493220</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">node43</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> state = free</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> np = 2</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> properties = d1850</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> ntype = cluster</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> status = opsys=linux,uname=Linux
node43 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64,ses</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sions=4319,nsessions=1,nusers=1,idletime=724050,totmem=6006400kb,availmem=5873948kb,physmem=8169096kb,ncpu</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">s=4,loadave=0.00,netload=33973156,state=free,jobs=?
0,rectime=1209493221</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">----------------------------------------------------------------------------</font>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">------<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Tom Pierce<br>
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