It looks like the version in the Debian repository (​https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gridengine.html) is 6.2u5.

In source/libs/sched/sge_resource_utilization.c:

#if 1

utilization_print(cr, "pe_slots"); printf("this was before utilization_normalize()\n");

#endif

Would be nice to remove this. Spews to the journal when running sge_qmaster via systemd.

The qmaster takes great pains to flush out all the spool objects when it does a normal exit. This is important because gridengine also tries hard to rate-limit the frequency of object updates, meaning some little-used objects can be permanently out of date.

However, it also takes great pains NOT to flush the spool objects if it notices that another qmaster has fiddled with the files - to avoid file corruption.

Unfortunately, an "if" test is reversed, so it only actually flushes in the condition of maximal chance of file corruption and doesn't otherwise.

Patch follows to correct this, prepared against 8.1.8.

As this code path has very rarely been used, probably worth testing it a bit before putting into production!