I think you could still set GrpTRESRunMins on an account or association to set hard quotas.
On Jun 5, 2017 5:21 AM, "Jacob Chappell" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >
