Are all the jobs running in different nodes? What version of slurm are you using? If you try to submit a job requesting 9 nodes do you get an error?
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Luque, N.B. <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot Kent Engström for your help. > I guess that what I wanted was GrpNodes, I set them now > $ sudo sacctmgr modify user nluque account=tcvu set GrpNodes=8 > then I restart slurm as before and nothing change I still can run 12 jobs > in different nodes. > Then I change AccountingStorageEnforce=limits,qos > And restart slurm. > But still, nothing changed > What am I missing? > > Thanks a lot for your help!!! > Best regards, > noelia > > On 26 Jul 2016, at 11:26, Kent Engström <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "Luque, N.B." <[email protected]> writes: > > Dear all, > > I tried to set the maxnodes per user =8 in slurm but it is not working. > > ... > > $ sudo sacctmgr modify user nluque account=tcvu set MaxNodes=8 > > ... > > It looks fine to me, but then... > I then submit 9-10 works and all of them were running, so, I don’t know > what else to do. > > > Are you trying to set the maximum number of nodes *per job*? In that case, > MaxNodes seem to be the right limit, as per the sacctmgr man page: > > MaxNodes=<max nodes> > Maximum number of nodes each job is able to use in > this association. [...] > > Are you trying to set a maximum number of nodes for all jobs? Then > GrpNodes could be what you are looking for instead? > > GrpNodes=<max nodes> > Maximum number of nodes running jobs are able to be allocated in > aggregate for this association and all associations which are > children of this association. [...] > > Best Regards, > / Kent Engström, NSC > > > -- -- Carles Fenoy
