[StarCluster] Load Balancer issues

[Rajat Banerjee]

The log line you cited:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\balancers\sge\__init__.py",
line 719, in _eval_add_node


has this, which is puzzling:
log.info("No queued jobs older than %d seconds" % self
.longest_allowed_queue_time)
https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/blob/develop/starcluster/balancers/sge/__init__.py

Three questions -
1) Are you using an up-to-date version?
2) did you try to override wait_time aka longest_allowed_queue_time in your
config file or on the load balancer command line? Otherwise it makes very
little sense, your stack trace looks like add_node failed, not the load
balancer
3) Any plugins running?

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Avner May <avnermay at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was writing because I have been having a lot of issues with the load
> balancer.  The most common issue I have is that it fails to remove
> instances effectively.  In a super slow fashion, it goes through the
> instances it wants to terminate (this pace is frustrating independent of
> the failure/success of the operation), and one by one fails to terminate
> each one.  Then, I am forced to kill a subset of the nodes in my cluster
> manually.  But this results in the scheduler being confused by how many
> nodes are actually in the network, so when I later submit jobs to the
> cluster again, it thinks it has enough nodes to handle that load, and
> doesn't create new instances.  So I am forced to create a ton of dummy jobs
> (eg, "qsub -V -b y -cwd hostname"), to trick the scheduler into thinking
> that it has more queued jobs than "available" machines.  These issues are
> quite annoying.
>
> Additionally, just now I had an issue where the load balancer failed to
> launch a machine:
>
> !!! ERROR - Error occured while running plugin
> 'starcluster.clustersetup.DefaultClusterSetup':
> !!! ERROR - Failed to add new host
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\balancers\sge\__init__.py",
> line 719, in _eval_add_node
>     self._cluster.add_nodes(need_to_add)
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\cluster.py",
> line 1042, in add_nodes
>     self.run_plugins(method_name="on_add_node", node=node)
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\cluster.py",
> line 1690, in run_plugins
>     self.run_plugin(plug, method_name=method_name, node=node)
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\cluster.py",
> line 1715, in run_plugin
>     func(*args)
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\clustersetup.py",
> line 425, in on_add_node
>     self._setup_etc_hosts(nodes)
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\clustersetup.py",
> line 252, in _setup_etc_hosts
>     self.pool.wait(numtasks=len(nodes))
>   File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.6-py2.7.egg\starcluster\threadpool.py",
> line 177, in wait
>     "An error occurred in ThreadPool", excs)
> ThreadPoolException: An error occurred in ThreadPool
> >>> Sleeping...(looping again in 60 secs)
>
> After getting this error, for some reason the load balancer stopped
> recognizing the existance of the cluster:
>
> C:\Windows\system32>starcluster loadbalance --max_nodes=100 --min_nodes=1
> --add_nodes_per_iter=17 babel2
> StarCluster - (http://star.mit.edu/cluster) (v. 0.95.6)
> Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
> Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu
>
> !!! ERROR - cluster babel2 is not running
>
> Is anyone else hitting similar issues with the load balancer?
>
> Thanks,
> Avner
>
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