On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote: > My impression was always (as there is a similar setting for the > load_threshold in OGE), that it should limit the number of jobs on a big SMP > machine when you oversubscribe by intention, as not all parallel jobs are > really using all the CPU power over their lifetime (maybe such a machine was > even operated w/o any NFS). Then allowing e.g. 72 slots for jobs on a 60 core > maschine might get most out of it with a load near 100%.
Our scheduler is currently set as to never allow over-subscription. Also, we don't allocate shared nodes. Users get resources in 8-core increments. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
