[Swift-devel] PBS coasters miscalculate PBS options

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 10:11 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> I suspect that even though qstat on pads doesnt show node limits on
> the queue, it likely balks if you ask for more nodes than exist on the
> system.

Yes, it will. It's a good idea to set "maxnodes" unless you have
sufficiently few jobs in the workflow.

>  I'll try setting provider options that keep it below 48 nodes (or 384
> nodes depending on how this is counted), or better yet much lower so
> that it doesnt create jobs that will never be runnable.

I'd set the maximum to the maximum allowed. The coaster manager will
submit jobs with fewer nodes.