Hi, Although there is no active job in the queue, the srun doesn't grant a node.
[mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ date Sun May 13 16:20:13 +0430 2018 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ srun -p IACTIVE -A em1 --pty bash srun: job 194 queued and waiting for resources ^Csrun: Job allocation 194 has been revoked srun: Force Terminated job 194 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ squeue JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ date Sun May 13 16:20:26 +0430 2018 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ scontrol show partition IACTIVE PartitionName=IACTIVE AllowGroups=ALL AllowAccounts=em1 AllowQos=ALL AllocNodes=rocks7 Default=NO QoS=N/A DefaultTime=NONE DisableRootJobs=NO ExclusiveUser=NO GraceTime=0 Hidden=NO MaxNodes=UNLIMITED MaxTime=UNLIMITED MinNodes=1 LLN=NO MaxCPUsPerNode=UNLIMITED Nodes=compute-0-[4-6] PriorityJobFactor=1 PriorityTier=1 RootOnly=NO ReqResv=NO OverSubscribe=NO OverTimeLimit=NONE PreemptMode=OFF State=UP TotalCPUs=144 TotalNodes=3 SelectTypeParameters=NONE DefMemPerNode=UNLIMITED MaxMemPerNode=UNLIMITED [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ sacctmgr list association format=account,user,partition | grep mahmood em1 mahmood iactive em1 mahmood plan1 monthly mahmood plan2 Any idea? Regards, Mahmood