[slurm-users] Fairshare - root user

[Antony Cleave]

I think If you increase the share of mygroup to something like 999 then the
share that the root user gets will drop by a factor of 1000

pretty sure I've seen this before and that's how I fixed it

Antony

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:47, Will Dennis <wdennis at nec-labs.com> wrote:

> Looking at output of 'sshare", I see:
>
> root at myserver:~# sshare -l
>              Account       User  RawShares  NormShares    RawUsage
>  NormUsage  EffectvUsage  FairShare
> -------------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- -----------
> ----------- ------------- ----------
> root                                          1.000000      420622
>           1.000000   0.500000
>  root                      root          1    0.500000           0
> 0.000000      0.000000   1.000000
>  mygroup                                 1    0.500000      420622
> 1.000000      1.000000   0.250000
>   subgroup_1                           100    0.333333      420622
> 1.000000      1.000000   0.125000
>   subgroup_2                            50    0.166667           0
> 0.000000      0.333333   0.250000
>
> It it OK that 'root' user has what looks like 50% shares of the entire
> cluster, leaving the other 50% to all the other users? If it's not an
> issue, OK, but if it is, any way to reduce the 'root' share?
>
> Thanks,
> Will
>
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