[auton-users] CPU Resources are Almost Maxed

[Michael J. Baysek]

Hi Lab,

In recent days, Jarod and I have noticed heavy use on the compute nodes. 
  We've also noticed that some nodes have many more jobs running than 
there are processors available on those nodes.

Please be courteous to other users and check the status page at 
http://www.autonlab.org/status (or at least run top) prior to launching 
your jobs.  Launching more jobs than there are available processors 
reduces overall throughput for everyone on the node.  The number of 
processor cores available on a node is listed on the status page in the 
denominator of the LOAD.

Also, a note for Neill Lab users.  If your jobs fit on a Neill Lab node, 
you should always prefer those nodes before using general purpose Auton 
Lab nodes.  You should do this because general Auton users can't access 
the idle Neill Lab nodes, whereas you can.

Best,

Mike




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Michael J. Baysek
Systems Analyst
mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu - mbaysek at gmail.com
http://www.autonlab.org