[StarCluster] Despite passing -b flag, starcluster starts an on-demand instance

[Arman Eshaghi]

Thanks, I'll send a PR for this to be included in the main documentation.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Peter Wilcock <peter.wilcock at igmm.ed.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Arman,
>
> I believe to make the master node spot you require another flag,
> -force-spot-master.
>
> I believe this isn't in the official documentation however and I'd
> recommend its inclusion to anyone reading!
>
> Best
>
> Pete
>
> On 10 January 2015 14:15:09 GMT+00:00, Arman Eshaghi <
> arman.eshaghi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Whenever I try to start a one-node cluster with the following command,
>> while I'm passing -b option with a spot bid, starcluster starts an
>> on-demand instance. The command is for
>>
>> starcluster start -s 1 -i c3.large -b 0.5 -l mycluster
>>
>> As far as I know, command line options will supersede other
>> configurations (.starcluster), is this right? I would appreciate any
>> pointers here.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Arman
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> StarCluster mailing list
>> StarCluster at mit.edu
>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcluster
>>
>>
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/starcluster/attachments/20150110/c6024370/attachment.htm