Re: [Condor-users] Problem with Group Accounting, another question...

[Richard Grieve <richard.grieve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,
This does work, and is sufficient to fix my problem for now.
However, I see now that accounting does not do exactly what I want to 
accomplish.  In my case, I have different types of jobs, with different 
numbers of available licenses.  For example, Type A has 5 licenses and 
Type B has 10 licenses.  What I really want to do is limit the number of 
jobs for each type, to the appropriate number of running jobs.  But I 
see that the "sum of all quotas must be less than or equal to the number 
of machines in the pool."  What will happen if this requirement is not 
met?  In my case, I have 15 machines in the pool, so I may allocate 
quotas of 5 and 10, but if a machine drops out, what will happen?  And 
if I want to add another group for license limit reason, I need to 
reduce the quota for the other groups (or add more machines).
Is there any chance to implement a feature (or extension to the group 
accounting feature) that allow to specify a max number of jobs for a 
given group?  In this way, I could have an arbitrary number of groups, 
with appropriately set limits, without the requirement that the sum of 
all quotas is > the # of machines.
Thanks,
Richard.

Jason Stowe wrote:
> Richard,
> So accounting Groups are set to group.user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I would set
> your +AccountingGroup="group_vsim@xxxxxxxxxxxx" or some such. You can
> also explicitly set autoregroup to false.
>
> Let me know how that works out, as there are more detailed steps to
> debug this if that doesn't work.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jason
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