Re: [Condor-users] Condor Group Accounting

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Noorisyam Hamid wrote:

> > Good Day everybody,
> >
> > I have a question about amount of share that is distributed among the
> > groups via group accounting.
> > Let say I have 100 resources in the pool and the shares have been
> > configured as follows:
> >
> > VOA = 75
> > VOB = 25
> >
> > Conceptually, VOA will receive 75 of resources while the rest will be
> > taken by VOB.
> >
> > Due to the dynamic nature of grid in terms of fluctuation of resources
> > availabilities, the pool suddenly shrink to 50 resources.
> > May I know what will happen to the resource allocation? Is the share
> > will be distributed based on percentage 75% : 25% ??

VOA could still take up to the full 50 if you configure it that way.
I had heard that condor was planning to add the feature to allocate
percentages of the pool to group quotas but I do not see it
in the current manual.  Maybe someone else has tried?

> And one more thing, each time of updating the amount of share in the
> global policy requires Condor to be restarted?

No--you just have to do a condor_reconfig on the machine
that is running the condor_negotiator.

Steve Timm

> > Appreciate of your advice.
> >
> > Thanks.
> -syam

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