[Clusterusers] Freeing up some cluster procs?

[Thomas Helmuth]

Hi Chris,

I went ahead and killed a less-important job with 17 active processes, and
it looks like the render jobs have started to use those nodes. Let me know
if it's still a problem!

Thanks,
Tom

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Chris Perry <perry at hampshire.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Tom - These particular jobs will be quite fast. They're queued and set
> at priority 2. They're the jobs whose titles start with "tmp RENDER gfp".
> If none have gone through in a few hours would you mind killing a job to
> give them space? It's okay to wait for most of the afternoon but if by
> tonight they're not running that could be an issue.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - chris
>
>
> On 2018-04-29 13:22, Thomas Helmuth wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Sorry about that! I have a honors thesis student who needed some
> last-minute GP runs for his thesis, which is due tomorrow, so I started a
> bunch of runs. That said, I don't think many started after right now will
> finish by tomorrow, so I reduced my priority to less than 1. Any new
> renders that start should have priority once a GP run finishes.
>
> If you're also on a tight schedule and need these sooner, let me know and
> I can kill off some of the runs.
>
> Best,
> Tom
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Chris Perry <perry at hampshire.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some animation students are trying to get renders through the cluster but
>> it appears that every single cluster proc is currently being taken up by GP
>> runs.
>>
>> Can we free up any machines for some relatively short animation renders?
>> Or should we just up the priority of our renders and let tractor take care
>> of the job management?
>>
>> I want to play along well with what you all have going but don't know
>> what the current etiquette is.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - chris
>>
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