[gridengine users] deciding spool directory location

[Reuti]

Hi,

Am 12.01.2012 um 18:17 schrieb Wolf, Dale:

> We are in the planning phase for the initial installation of grid engine. The initial
> configuration initially is a single cluster with 30 SLES 11 machines.  This number may
> grow to as many as 100 SLES 11 servers.
>  
> The Oracle N1 Grid Engine 6 Installation Guide, under sge-root Installation Directory,
> indicates placing the spool directory under sge-root may be avoided for efficiency
> reasons.  Later on, under Spool Directories Under the Root Directory, it states
>  
> "You do not need to export these directories to other machines. However, exporting the entire sge-root tree and making it write-accessible for the master host and all executable hosts makes administration easier."

Well, the spool directory is inside the $SGE_ROOT/default/spool, but the best way for me is in the middle: to export $SGE_ROOT to all machines, while redirecting the spool directory to a location like /var/spool/sge, which needs only to be writable by the SGE admin user (the "/var/spool/sge/qmaster" needs to be created beforehand, while the spool directories for the nodes will be created automatcially when the sgeeced starts).

http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/howto/nfsreduce.html

-- Reuti


> We are trying to determine where the spool directory should reside based on performance
> Versus ease of administration.  Can somebody explain how ease of administration would
> be made easier?
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> Dale
>  
>  
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