Hi Mike, I think you want to set MaxSubmitJobs on the users account association. The parameter is described in the sacctmgr documentation as being the maximum number of jobs a user can have in state running or pending.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html Thanks, -Sean On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:12 PM Hanby, Mike <mha...@uab.edu> wrote: > Howdy, > > > > We are running Slurm 18.08. We have a user who has, twice, submitted over > 15 thousand jobs to the cluster (the queue normally has a couple thousand > jobs at any given time). > > > > This results in Slurm being unresponsive to user requests / job submits. I > suspect the scheduler is getting bogged down doing backfill processing. > > > > Is there any way to limit the maximum number of jobs a single user can > have in the queue at any given time? > > > > ---------------- > > Mike Hanby > > mhanby @ uab.edu > > Systems Analyst III - Enterprise > > IT Research Computing Services > > The University of Alabama at Birmingham >
