On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
But if your users, like mine, can't or won't supply this information
... or would supply some meaningless values...
For example, if the queue is limited to 24h maximum runtime and they
would set 24h as their requirement, thinking that it would certainly
cover what they want and the job would not run anyway longer than
that, as it would be killed by the scheduler. Even when they run sets
of identical jobs, for which they could very well predict the needed
runtime after the first 1 or a few jobs have finished... And the most
painful part is that quite of lot of these users also feel very
strongly that they are doing nothing wrong: they set a value which is
less-or-equal than the maximum allowed, "so it's got to be right, no ?"
(obviously, if the queue limit would be set to something different
(say 12h) they would simply adjust to the new value ;-)).
So, when the majority of submitted jobs are of this type, is there any
point in having a smart scheduler in the first place ?
--
Bogdan Costescu
IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
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