<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Correction, the stuck jobs stay in a W state and some were submitted earlier in the same day. </span><span>Also, when I compare output of "<span id="misspell-0" class="mark">qstat</span> -f" for one job before and after being stuck, it shows these lines were added:</span></div><div><span>21a22<br>> Resource_List.<span id="misspell-1" class="mark">neednodes</span> = 1<br>108a110,113<br>> <span id="misspell-2" class="mark">euser</span> = <span id="misspell-3" class="mark">rpt</span>_prod<br>> <span id="misspell-4" class="mark">egroup</span> = <span id="misspell-5" class="mark">rpt</span><br>> queue_rank = 102241<br>> queue_type = E<br></span></div><div><span>Thank you,
Sam.</span></div><div><br><div><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Sam Oubari <soubari@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "torqueusers@supercluster.org" <torqueusers@supercluster.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:24 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Broken
Scheduling Puzzle<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv115127473"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span>Hello,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>I have one but very busy PROD PBS 2.5.11 on x86-64 server using a local <span id="yiv115127473misspell-0" class="yiv115127473mark"><span id="misspell-7" class="mark">pbs</span></span>_<span id="yiv115127473misspell-1" class="yiv115127473mark"><span id="misspell-8" class="mark">sched</span></span> and all components and clients are running on the same server.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Currently, if I have jobs from the day before waiting for future exec date, and I <span id="yiv115127473misspell-2" class="yiv115127473mark"><span id="misspell-9" class="mark">qsub</span></span> a new job with a future time, then <span id="yiv115127473misspell-3" class="yiv115127473mark"><span id="misspell-10"
class="mark">qmove</span></span> it to another queue and <span id="yiv115127473misspell-4" class="yiv115127473mark"><span id="misspell-11" class="mark">qalter</span></span> it to a more distant future date, then some of the waiting jobs move to Q status at exec time but don't run. The moved job and all other jobs run as they should. All the jobs on this server
are generally executing simple scripts. Normally, since 2.4.x, this problem shows up rarely and randomly, but for about a week now, I can re-produce on demand but not on my TEST server.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Any ideas what I should try?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Sam.</span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>