I've tried SGE on OSX, works OK. SGEp2 is *really* old, you should download the source from the SGE site and compile on your machine. http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList Rayson --- "Beltrami, Riccardo" <Riccardo_Beltrami@Chiron.it> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to add few MacOS X execution nodes in our experimental > Grid > Engine cluster. > > The GE port I'm using is the Van Etten's 5.3p2 version available as a > > package on the BioTeam web site. > > It's working ok however when I run qhost as user sgeadmin on an > administration host I get: > > HOSTNAME ARCH NPROC LOAD MEMTOT MEMUSE > SWAPTO SWAPUS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ... > stark darwin 1 - 0.0 - > 0.0 - > > where stark is my MacOS X execution host. > > The problem is that stark is a dual processor PPC G4 1.25GHz with > 1.5GB of > RAM so the NPROC, MEMTOT etc. values are wrong reported. > > In fact, if I run the command loadcheck found in > $SGE_ROOT/utilbin/darwin > directory as user root this is what I get: > > # ./loadcheck > arch darwin > num_proc 1 > load_short 0.00 > load_medium 0.00 > load_long 0.00 > mem_free 0.000000M > swap_free 0.000000M > virtual_free 0.000000M > mem_total 0.000000M > swap_total 0.000000M > virtual_total 0.000000M > mem_used 0.000000M > swap_used 0.000000M > virtual_used 0.000000M > cpu 0.0% > > Those values are clearly wrong, and if I run the same command on > other > execution host (for example Solaris/Sparc machine) I get correct > values. > > Stark runs MacOS X 10.2.6 with all the latest patches available from > Apple. > > Does anybody know how to fix/solve this problem? > > Tia, Riccardo. > > > > > O > / \ > ,---------------------+---+-----------------------. > | Riccardo Beltrami |-. > | | | > | Bioinformatics | | > | | | > | riccardo_beltrami@chiron.it | | > | | | > `-------------------------------------------------' | > `--------------------------------------------------' > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com