Re: [slurm-users] Multifactor priority configuration

2020-01-22 Thread Killian Murphy
Thanks for the replies - they will help me think about configuration changes. On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 14:05, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > We have > > PriorityDecayHalfLife=7-0 > PriorityMaxAge=7-0 > > which are the defaults. > > I don't quite understand the point below about the business of

Re: [slurm-users] Multifactor priority configuration

2020-01-22 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, We have PriorityDecayHalfLife=7-0 PriorityMaxAge=7-0 which are the defaults. I don't quite understand the point below about the business of the cluster. If the cluster isn't busy, the jobs won't need to compete and jobs belonging to users with zero shares will still start. For me the

Re: [slurm-users] Multifactor priority configuration

2020-01-22 Thread Hadrian Djohari
Hi Killian, We choose to penalize the users a little only for their previous busy jobs, so we choose short turnarounds. PriorityDecayHalfLife=1-0 PriorityMaxAge=4-0 The busier the cluster, the longer should the parameters be, so the user previous jobs will restrict the "future" ones more. These s

[slurm-users] Multifactor priority configuration

2020-01-22 Thread Killian Murphy
Hi all. I’m interested to learn what people are using for the following configuration items: - PriorityDecayHalfLife - PriorityMaxAge and why they have chosen to set these as they have. I believe we haven’t got these set quite right on our cluster (3-0 for both items), and some understandi