[Clusterusers] the cluster room must be really hot right now

[Lee Spector]

Single processes that run for several days aren't that unusual for us...

 -Lee

On Jun 19, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:

> Cool, I was just checking to see if it was normal- in our case if a job
> took that long we'd think there was a problem with it. I got curious
> when none of our renders spooled on the cluster (they're running on the
> macs) and clicked on the nodes in tractor to find out.
> 
> cluster top sounds neat though, I hope they port it to their next
> release.
> 
> On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 09:07 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>> No, I don't think it's bad. The way to tell what's going on on what
>> node is to use the tractor interface or to log into the nodes. I miss
>> cluster top too. I asked the ROCKS developers about it, and they said
>> they didn't have time to port it to this release.
>>    -Josiah
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/19/13 8:03 AM, Thomas Helmuth wrote:
>> 
>>> A lot of what's running are my GP runs. Right now I have 101
>>> heavy-duty tasks going on the cluster. I can tone it down a bit if
>>> we think that's bad for some reason.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Lee Spector
>>> <lspector at hampshire.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>        There used to be a "cluster top" link that would show what
>>>        "top" shows from a command line -- e.g. the specific
>>>        commands running with their runtimes. But I don't see it
>>>        now... Am I just missing it or did it go away? Hard to tell
>>>        what's running without it...
>>> 
>>>         -Lee
>>> 
>>>        On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Looking at the cluster right now I'm seeing many machines
>>>        with MaxLoad
>>>> exceeded, and some jobs seem to be stuck on them for more
>>>        than a day, it
>>>> could be ok (just heavy computation tasks) but just wanted
>>>        to poke in
>>>> case something is going wrong.
>>>> cheers
>>>> Bassam
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 09:24 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson
>>>        wrote:
>>>>> I was noting this as well. The best thing about it is
>>>        that between our
>>>>> new ceiling-mounted 4-ton capacity Mitsubishi A/C unit
>>>        (thanks Mark
>>>>> Monaco!) and our new energy-efficient Rack2, it's
>>>        actually quite cool in
>>>>> there. Time to add more nodes, I guess :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>    -Josiah
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/11/13 11:45 PM, Jaime Davila wrote:
>>>>>> Hey gang,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you haven't seen the ganglia report web page in the
>>>        last day, check
>>>>>> it out. It's impressive, I've never seen it like that.
>>>        No one can say
>>>>>> we don't take advantage of all that computing power!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://fly.hampshire.edu/ganglia/
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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