Re: [slurm-users] Preemption not working for jobs in higher priority partition

2021-08-24 Thread Russell Jones
I have been researching this further and I see other systems that appear to be set up the same way we are. Example: https://hpcrcf.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TCP/pages/733184001/How-to+Use+the+preempt+Partition Any further insight into what may be wrong with our setup is appreciated. I am not seein

Re: [slurm-users] Preemption not working for jobs in higher priority partition

2021-08-20 Thread Russell Jones
I could have swore I had tested this before implementing it and it worked as expected. If I am dreaming that testing - is there a way of allowing preemption across partitions? On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 8:40 AM Brian Andrus wrote: > IIRC, Preemption is determined by partition first, not node. > >

Re: [slurm-users] Preemption not working for jobs in higher priority partition

2021-08-20 Thread Brian Andrus
IIRC, Preemption is determined by partition first, not node. Since your pending job is in the 'day' partition, it will not preempt something in the 'night' partition (even if the node is in both). Brian Andrus On 8/19/2021 2:49 PM, Russell Jones wrote: Hi all, I could use some help to under

[slurm-users] Preemption not working for jobs in higher priority partition

2021-08-19 Thread Russell Jones
Hi all, I could use some help to understand why preemption is not working for me properly. I have a job blocking other jobs that doesn't make sense to me. Any assistance is appreciated, thank you! I have two partitions defined in slurm, a day time and a night time pariition: Day partition - Pri