[gridengine users] slot reservation

William Hay w.hay at ucl.ac.uk
Mon Jul 2 07:40:25 UTC 2012


On 2 July 2012 07:09, Steve Schmerler <elcortogm at googlemail.com> wrote:

>> > Also, I may not fully understand what max_reservation is. Right now I
>> > set it to 128 which I assume is the max number of slots to be reserved
>>
>> It depends on the size of the cluster. But usally around 32 should do.
>
> OK, but it is not the actual number of reserved slots, is it?
>
It is the maximum number of jobs (or array job tasks) that can obtain a
reservation.  How many slots they request is irrelevant.

William


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