[HTCondor-users] WG: Users priorities problem

[daniel popu <dpopu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
 
I sent the mail below and I got the answer on 
 
https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/htcondor-users/2013-July/msg00118.shtml
 
How could I continue that thread of discussion? 
 
 
First of all I wish to thank Steffen Grunewald for his answer.
 
 
Second I wish to ask other items.
 
1) Steffen mention that I should take care of CLAIM_WORKLIFE to not put it too small. 
 
For the moment I used 
UWCS_CLAIM_WORKLIFE = (3 * $(MINUTE))
 
3 minutes is too short?
 
How can I detect if my throughput is harmed because of too short lease time?
 
 
2) Resources usage Percentage
 
In my pool I found the next situation:
 
There are 150 free cores.
We have only one active user.
He starts a simulation but he gets maximum 90 cores. 
With other occasion he could get maximum of 140 cores.(so there is no constraint from OS).
 
 
Is there a parameter which influences the maximum number of cores allocated to a user? 
 
 
All the best,
Daniel

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Gesendet: 11:36 Dienstag, 30.Juli 2013
Betreff: Users priorities problem

Hello,
 I build a pool of computers on which I installed Condor V 7.8.8.
In the pool there are roughly 50 computers. 
For the easiness of the explanation let's assume that there are 100 cores.
 
I hit the next problem:
2 users want to run simulations in the same time.
 
User A : effective priority 8.0
User B: effective priority 2.0
 
User A starts the simulation and occupies 97 cores.
User A has 400 jobs, each of them taking about 5 minutes.
 
After 5 minutes User B starts the simulation. 
User B has also 400 jobs each of them taking about 5 minutes.
User B gets 3 cores.
After 15 minutes User B has still 3 cores.
User B do not get more than 3 cores until User A finish its simulations.
 
1) Can I do something that User B, which has better priority, to take more cores immediately after one job for User A is finished. With other words, if a core used by User A is released, be be taken by User B, even if User A still has jobs to run? 
 
2) I tried to reset the priorities: 
condor_userprio -resetall
Nothing happened. I could only modify the priority factor . Even if the displayed message was
"The accumulated usage was reset for all users"
 
3) I tried also 
condor_userprio -setprio userA 0.5
The message I get is 
The priority of userA was set to 0.500000
but when I check the results with condor_userprio I still get the old priority.
 
All the best,
Daniel