[Clusterusers] NIMBYed nodes

[Lee Spector]

Some of these were probably my doing, but I only recall nimbying 1-4 and 4-5 in the recent past.

It's not a problem with a node that causes me to do this, it's an interest in having total control of a node for a compute-intensive multithreaded run, with no chance that any other processes will be allocated on it. Sometimes I'll start one of these, check in on it regularly for a while, and then check in less frequently if it's not doing anything really interesting but I'm not ready to kill it in case it might still do something good. Then sometimes I lose track. Right now I have nothing running, and any nimbying that I've done can be unnimbyed, although I'm not 100% sure what I may have left nimbyed.

Ideally, I guess, we'd have a nimby command that records who nimbyed and maybe periodically asks them if they still want it nimbyed. I'm not sure how difficult that would be. If somebody is inspired to do this, then it would also be nice if the command for numbying/unnimbying was more straightforward than the current one (which takes a 1 or a 0 as an argument, which is a little confusing), if it returned a value that made it more clear what the new status is, and if there was a simple way just to check the status (which maybe there is now? if so I don't know it).

 -Lee


> On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <wjerikson at hampshire.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>    Why are nodes 1-17, 1-18, 1-2, 1-4, and 1-9 NIMBYed? If you are
> having a problem with a node that causes you to need to NIMBY it, please
> let me know, because maybe it just means I screwed up the service keys
> or something. I'm not omniscient :)
> 
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