We have multiple partitions using the same nodes. The interactive partition is high priority and limited on time and resources. The batch partition is low priority and has looser time and resource restrictions.
And we have a shell function that calls srun —partition=interactive —pty $SHELL to make it easier to submit interactive jobs. -- Mike Renfro / HPC Systems Administrator, Information Technology Services 931 372-3601<tel:931%20372-3601> / Tennessee Technological University On Sep 19, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Siddharth Dalmia <dalmia....@gmail.com<mailto:dalmia....@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to have a separate timeout for interactive jobs? Or can someone help me come up with a hack to do this? Thanks Sid