We're running PBSPro. Your note on running a job a monitoring the PBS database is exactly what we're currently working on. I wasn't sure if there was an easier [undocumented] way of doing so as in Torque.
Thanks for the help cheers john On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 19:12 -0500, Glen Beane wrote: > > > > --- Original Message --- > > For those reading the list that run PBS, we have an interesting > > situation... After a fairly substantial crash, we've had to > > rebuild our > > PBS configuration. We've also been asked to reset to the PBS > > job id > > counter to a position near where it left off [for reasons of > > accounting]. Has anyone ever done this?? > > > > cheers > > john > > > PBS Pro, Open PBS, or TORQUE? > > One easy way, but a bit of a hack, is to write a script that submits a bunch > of dummy jobs and qdel's them. > > With Open PBS and older versions of torque you can edit the code that creates > the server database to initialize the job counter to whatever number you > want, then recompile the server, and start it with the -t create flag. > > Newer versions of TORQUE include a qmgr hidden server attribute (documented, > but not printed if you run "print server") called next_job_number. qmgr -c > "s s next_job_number=N" > > With OpenPBS or TORQUE you can look at the source and figure out the format > of the binary server database file and change the job id counter with a hex > editor. You might be able to reverse engineer the location of this in the > server database for PBSPro by submitting a job and then looking to see what > got incremented in the file - it is probably in the native byte order of your > system. > > Glen L. Beane > The Jackson Laboratory > Software Engineer III > Phone 207-288-6153 > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
