[Swift-user] slots in sites.xml

[Mihael Hategan]

Slot only says what the maximum number of jobs can be. The
allocationStepSize determines which fraction of those will be allocated
in one step. But essentially you want to leave some slots for future
jobs.

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:14 -0500, Jonathan Monette wrote:
> Hello,
>      In the sites entry below I set slots to be 100.  I thought this 
> would have coasters start 100 workers submitted to the fast queue.  Is 
> this the proper way to ask for 100 workers on PADS.  When I check all 
> jobs submitted to PADS it tell me I have 51.  That is queue jobs + 
> running jobs.  Is my site entry wrong?
> pool handle="pads">
> <execution jobmanager="local:pbs" provider="coaster" />
> <filesystem provider="local" />
> <profile key="maxtime" namespace="globus">3600</profile>
> <profile key="internalhostname" namespace="globus">192.5.86.6</profile>
> <profile key="workersPerNode" namespace="globus">1</profile>
> <profile key="slots" namespace="globus">100</profile>
> <profile key="nodeGranularity" namespace="globus">1</profile>
> <profile key="maxNodes" namespace="globus">1</profile>
> <profile key="queue" namespace="globus">fast</profile>
> <profile key="jobThrottle" namespace="karajan">1</profile>
> <profile key="initialScore" namespace="karajan">10000</profile>
> <workdirectory>/gpfs/pads/swift/jonmon/Swift/work/pads</workdirectory>
> </pool>
>