[Starcluster] Load Balancer Problems

[Rajat Banerjee]

Hey Amaro,
Great. Glad it is working for you.

I know what that error is - when no job has completed, qacct returns 1
instead of 0. I am looking for a way to get rid of that message. It
has no effect on the balancer.

Rajat


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Amaro Taylor
<amaro.taylor at resgroupinc.com> wrote:
> Hey Rajat,
>
> Just to update you on the testing progress. Im currently running a job and
> it seems to be working as expected. We also got one error that didnt seem to
> change anything :  ssh.py:248 - ERROR - command source /etc/profile && qacct
> -j -b 201008021652 failed with status 1. The balancer looks to be working
> great.
> Best,
> Amaro Taylor
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> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Amaro Taylor <amaro.taylor at resgroupinc.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> As far as the node idle time I think we just misinterpreted what was
>> happening. The modulus statement was what we wanted.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Amaro Taylor
>> RES Group, Inc.
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>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Justin Riley <jtriley at mit.edu> wrote:
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>>> Raj,
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>>> > 2. What is your preference for how long a job should stay idle before
>>> > being killed?
>>>
>>> I think you meant *node* not job...
>>>
>>> > I usually don't check how long it has been idle. If it
>>> > is idle now and the queue is empty then kill it. I could add code to
>>> > check how long it has been idle, if it seems useful. Is there a use
>>> > case?
>>>
>>> Also, the node must be up for the "majority of the hour" before it can
>>> be considered for removal. This provides flexibility for the queue to
>>> stabilize and also saves money given that you pay for the entire
>>> instance hour anyway.
>>>
>>> As far as the "code to check how long a node has been idle" goes I'm not
>>> sure I understand the use case/context either. Mind bringing the list up
>>> to date on this discussion?
>>>
>>> ~Justin
>>>
>>> On 08/02/2010 02:38 PM, Rajat Banerjee wrote:
>>> > Hey Amaro,
>>> > Cool thanks. I called Brian and got info regarding the array of jobs.
>>> > I checked in some test code that works fine on my (simple) cluster
>>> > with qsub -t 1-20:1. I'd appreciate it if you'd test and let me know
>>> > how it goes. Just committed to github:
>>> >
>>> > http://github.com/rqbanerjee/StarCluster/commit/17998a68feab3d1440aa5d9edc2e74697e43ef54
>>> >
>>> > Making requests during a business day has its rewards :)
>>> >
>>> > Regarding the host that had been inactive for a short time:
>>> > 1. If the "tasks" field was properly recognized , as it is now, the
>>> > queue should be recognized as full, and that node probably wouldn't
>>> > have been killed.
>>> > 2. What is your preference for how long a job should stay idle before
>>> > being killed? I usually don't check how long it has been idle. If it
>>> > is idle now and the queue is empty then kill it. I could add code to
>>> > check how long it has been idle, if it seems useful. Is there a use
>>> > case?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Rajat
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