While on the subject, I have to add my 2 cents. I ran into the same problem yesterday.
In sbatch man pages I read: " -t, --time=<time> Set a limit on the total run time of the job allocation. If the requested time limit exceeds the partition's time limit, the job will be left in a PENDING state (possibly indefinitely). The default time limit is the partition's default time limit. When the time limit is reached, each task in each job step is sent SIGTERM followed by SIGKILL. The interval between signals is specified by the Slurm configuration parameter KillWait. The OverTimeLimit configuration parameter may permit the job to run longer than scheduled. Time resolution is one minute and second values are rounded up to the next minute." So, even if jobs request longer timelimit than the max time limit of the queue, they are successfully submitted and then in pending state until they are killed (due to exceeding time limit). Why aren't the jobs rejected in the first place and the user notified? Cheers, Barbara On 05/23/2017 01:46 AM, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > Re: PartitionTimeLimit : what does that mean? > Gah. I just found the MaxTime in the slurm.conf. > > My bad, sorry. > > L. > > ------ > "Mission Statement: To provide hope and inspiration for collective > action, to build collective power, to achieve collective > transformation, rooted in grief and rage but pointed towards vision > and dreams." > > - Patrice Cullors, /Black Lives Matter founder/ > > On 23 May 2017 at 09:43, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hola, > > One of my users has been given the PartitionTimeLimit reason for > his jobs not running. > > He has requested 20 days for the job, but I don't remember setting > a time limit on any partition? > > I do recall setting a default time, but not a time limit. > > The docs claim: > > https://slurm.schedmd.com/squeue.html > <https://slurm.schedmd.com/squeue.html> > > *PartitionTimeLimit* > The job's time limit exceeds it's partition's current time limit. > > > But I can't find anything else that might describe where a time > limit was set or how I might go about configurating it out of the way? > > > cheers > > L. > > > > ------ > "Mission Statement: To provide hope and inspiration for collective > action, to build collective power, to achieve collective > transformation, rooted in grief and rage but pointed towards > vision and dreams." > > - Patrice Cullors, /Black Lives Matter founder/ > >
