[slurm-users] Re: Jobs pending with reason "priority" but nodes are idle

2024-09-24 Thread Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users
ll loop as that loop should be the one that backfills in those lower priority jobs. I would also look to see if those lower priority jobs will actually fit in prior to the higher priority job running, they may not. -Paul Edmon- On 9/24/24 2:19 PM, Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users wrote: I ex

[slurm-users] Re: Jobs pending with reason "priority" but nodes are idle

2024-09-24 Thread Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users
ll be pending with “Resources”. So a few questions: 1. What are the “Resources” jobs waiting on, resource-wise? 2. When are they scheduled to start? 3. Can your array jobs backfill into the idle resources and finish before the “Resources” jobs are scheduled to start? From: Long, Daniel S.

[slurm-users] Jobs pending with reason "priority" but nodes are idle

2024-09-24 Thread Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users
Hi, On our cluster we have some jobs that are queued even though there are available nodes to run on. The listed reason is "priority" but that doesn't really make sense to me. Slurm isn't picking another job to run on those nodes; it's just not running anything at all. We do have a quite hetero

[slurm-users] Re: scontrol create partition fails

2024-06-10 Thread Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users
.de> | www.igd.fraunhofer.de<http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/> From: Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>> Sent: Montag, 10. Juni 2024 15:03 To: slurm-us...@schedmd.com<mailto:slurm-us...@schedmd.com> Subject: [slurm-users] scontrol create partition fails Hi

[slurm-users] scontrol create partition fails

2024-06-10 Thread Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users
Hi, I need to temporarily dedicated one of our compute nodes to a single account. To do this, I was going to create a new partition but I'm running into an error where scontrol create partition outputs "scontrol: error: Invalid input: partition Request aborted" regardless of what parameters

[slurm-users] FairShare priority questions

2024-03-27 Thread Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users
Hi, I’m trying to set up multifactor priority on our cluster and am having some trouble getting it to behave the way I’d like. My main issues seem to revolve around FairShare. We have multiple projects on our cluster and multiple users in those projects (and some users are in multiple projects