Appendices > Appendix K: "torque.cfg" configuration file

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 job's PBS_OUID 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 re-runnable by default. Setting this to false causes the re-runnable 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 (see Job submission filter ("qsub wrapper") 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 K-1:

torque.cfg:

QSUBSLEEP 2

SERVERHOST orion15