[Swift-user] Why so few nodes ?

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:30 -0500, Xueyuan Zhou wrote:
> still, except the very beginning and ending(< 4 nodes), the most nodes I can 
> get is about 4 nodes, since it seems to be dual core, it is 8 running jobs.

How do you reach that conclusion? As far as I can tell, by default, one
job maps to one node (regardless of the number of cores).

> I also noticed there are some free nodes there. I am wondering why I can 
> only have about 8 running job (on 4 nodes), and about 20~30 in Q, while 
> dozons of nodes are free.

May it be because you're using the "fast" queue, which may have a
limitation on the maximum number of nodes you can get at one time?