| Bonsai!
I recently rediscovered a hidden qconf option. I remember talking with the engineer when he implemented the option years ago, but because it was never documented, I forgot that it existed. A recent customer eval reminded me that it's there, and I think it's one worth sharing.
The hidden option is qconf -bonsai. It is a human-readable equivalent of qconf -sstree, which if you've looked at you'll know isn't even remotely human-readable. It prints the current share tree configuration using spacing to represent hierarchy.
Let's look at an example. This is the output from qconf -sstree for my home test cluster:
# qconf -sstree
id=0
name=Root
type=0
shares=1
childnodes=1
id=1
name=sge
type=0
shares=1000
childnodes=2,3
id=2
name=root
type=0
shares=400
childnodes=NONE
id=3
name=default
type=0
shares=200
childnodes=NONE
This is the output from qconf -bonsai for the same cluster:
# qconf -bonsai
Root=1
sge=1000
root=400
default=200
Now, as for why it's an undocumented feature, I suspect it's historical. It was originally added on a whim by one of the engineers and was just never fully embraced. I remember there being talk about changing the name of the switch and making it a documented feature, but I suspect that plan just got lost in the shuffle.
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The -bonsai option has since been officially exposed as -stree. -bonsai is still there, though.
Posted by Daniel Templeton on July 20, 2009 at 06:19 AM PDT #