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Appendix K: torque.cfg Configuration File

The torque.cfg file should be placed in the TORQUE home directory (i.e., /var/spool/torque). Below is a list of torque.cfg parameters:

CLIENTRETRY
Format:

<INT>
Default:

0
Description:

Seconds between retry attempts to talk to pbs_server

   

DEFAULTCKPT
Format:

<STRING>
Default:

None
Description:

Default value for job's checkpoint attribute
   

FAULT_TOLERANT_BY_DEFAULT
Format:

<BOOLEAN>
Default:

FALSE
Description:

Sets all jobs to fault tolerant by default. See qsub -f for more information on fault tolerance.
   

QSUBHOST
Format:

<HOSTNAME>
Default:

None
Description:

The hostname given as the argument of this option will be used as the PBS_O_HOST variable for job submissions. By default, PBS_O_HOST is the hostname of the submission host. This option allows administrators to override the default hostname and substitute a new name.
   

QSUBSENDUID
Format:

N/A
Default:

None
Description:

Integer for jobs's PBS_O_UID variable. Specifying the parameter name anywhere in the config file enables the feature. Removing the parameter name disables the feature.
   

QSUBSLEEP
Format:

<INT>
Default:

0
Description:

Specifies time to sleep when running qsub command, used to prevent users from overwhelming the scheduler.
   
RERUNNABLEBYDEFAULT
Format: <BOOLEAN>
Default: TRUE
Description: Specifies if a job is rerunnable by default. Setting this to false causes the rerunnable attribute value to be false unless the users specifies otherwise with the qsub -r option.. New in TORQUE 2.4.
   

SERVERHOST
Format:

<STRING>
Default:

localhost
Description:

If set, the server will open socket connections and communicate with client commands and other services using the specified network interface. (useful with multi-homed hosts, i.e., nodes with multiple network adapters)
   

SUBMITFILTER
Format:

<STRING>
Default:

${libexecdir}/qsub_filter (for version 2.1 and older: /usr/local/sbin/torque_submitfilter)
Description:

Specifies the location of the submit filter used to pre-process job submission.
   

TRQ_IFNAME
Format:

<STRING>
Default:

null
Description:

Allows you to specify a specific network interface to use for outbound TORQUE requests. The string is the name of a network interface, such as eth0 or eth1, depending on which interface you want to use.
   

VALIDATEGROUP
Format:

<BOOLEAN>
Default:

False
Description:

Validate submit user's group on qsub commands. For TORQUE builds released after 2/8/2011, VALIDATEGROUP also checks any groups requested in group_list at the submit host. Set VALIDATEGROUP to TRUE if you set disable_server_id_check to TRUE.
   

VALIDATEPATH
Format:

<BOOLEAN>
Default:

TRUE
Description:

Validate local existence of '-d' working directory

Example:

torque.cfg: 
QSUBSLEEP              2
SERVERHOST             orion15
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