From 875153e4f5d35dafee0a29b52d7feec4d5e1ffa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Moe Jette <jette1@llnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:56:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update select/cons_res web page (Susanne Balle, HP,
cons_res_doc_patch_3_29_06).
---
NEWS | 1 +
doc/html/cons_res.shtml | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 176b87a6d79..468f9c96755 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
WARNING: "JobAcctType=jobacct/log" is no longer supported.
-- Removed vestigal 'bg' names from bluegene plugin and smap
-- InactiveLimit parameter is not enforced for RootOnly partitions.
+ -- Update select/cons_res web page (Susanne Balle, HP, cons_res_doc_patch_3_29_06).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre2
=============================
diff --git a/doc/html/cons_res.shtml b/doc/html/cons_res.shtml
index 2dc4e3437b8..b6f9691aed0 100644
--- a/doc/html/cons_res.shtml
+++ b/doc/html/cons_res.shtml
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ this plug-in is described below.
view, working the same way as when using the default node selection scheme.</li>
<li>We introduce a new switch <i>--exclusive</i> which will allow users to reserve/use nodes in
exclusive mode even when consumable resources is enabled. see "man srun" for details. </li>
+ <li>Using the <i>--overcommit</i> or <i>-O</i> switch in the
+ <b>select/cons_res</b> environment is only allowed/possible when a user
+ requests dedicated nodes using the <i>--exclusive</i>
+ switch. Overcommiting CPUs in a non-dedicated environment would
+ impact jobs that are co-located on the nodes which is not a
+ desirable feature.We are currently looking into "pinning" the
+ processes to jobs' allocated CPUs which should allow users in
+ <b>the future</b> to overcommit CPUs in a the <b>select/cons_res</b> environment
+ without affecting co-located jobs.</li>
+
<li>SLURM's default <b>select/linear</b> plugin is using a best fit algorithm based on
number of consecutive nodes. We have chosen the same node allocation
approach for consistency.</li>
--
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