Hi Chris, Thank you very much for the details and clarification. It's unfortunate that you can't have both fairshare and fixed quotas. I'll pass this information along to my supervisors.
Jacob Chappell On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/06/17 07:03, Jacob Chappell wrote: > > > Sorry, that was a mouthful, but important. Does anyone know if Slurm can > > accomplish this for me. If so how? > > This was how we used to run prior to switching to fair-share. > > Basically you set: > > PriorityDecayHalfLife=0 > > which stops the values decaying over time so once they hit their limit > that's it. > > We also set: > > PriorityUsageResetPeriod=QUARTERLY > > so that limits would reset on the quarter boundaries. This was because > we used to have fixed quarterly allocations for projects. > > We went to fair-share because of a change of the funding model for us > meant previous rules were removed and so we could go to fair-share which > meant a massive improvement in utilisation (compute nodes were no longer > idle with jobs waiting but unable to run because of being out of quota). > > NOTE: You can't have both fairshare and hard quotas at the same time. > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne > Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 >
