On 03/01/2012 01:52 AM, Jon Tegner wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> Is there any scheduler which has the functionality to automatically put
> a running job on hold when another job with higher priority is submitted?
>
> Preferably the state of the first job should be frozen, and saved to
> disk, so that it
> Preferably the state of the first job should be frozen, and saved to
> disk, so that it can be restarted again when the higher priority job has
> finished.
well, maybe. that process (checkpoint/restore) really makes sense
only if the preemtor is giant and/or long. otherwise SIGSTOP is
a much
I think the command you're looking for is,
> sudo nice -n -20 ./my_important_program
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Jon Tegner wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> Is there any scheduler which has the functionality to automatically put
> a running job on hold when another job with higher priority is submi
On Thursday 01 March 2012 18:22:12 Rayson Ho wrote:
> Torque has job preemption. I have not used Torque for a while (I
> used to be an OpenPBS user) so I am not the best person to answer
> the question for Torque. However, if you google "job
> preemption"+torque, you should be able to find some us
Jon,
Almost every cluster job scheduler supports preemption (use it as the
google keyword and you will find lots of references...).
Torque has job preemption. I have not used Torque for a while (I used
to be an OpenPBS user) so I am not the best person to answer the
question for Torque. However,
Hi Jon,
Jon Tegner schrieb:
Is there any scheduler which has the functionality to automatically put
a running job on hold when another job with higher priority is submitted?
AFAIK at least LSF has this as a feature called preemption.
Preferably the state of the first job should be frozen, an
Hi list!
Is there any scheduler which has the functionality to automatically put
a running job on hold when another job with higher priority is submitted?
Preferably the state of the first job should be frozen, and saved to
disk, so that it can be restarted again when the higher priority job ha
