Hi Rutger. Are you trying to have one job *per user* running in your partition? Or just one job total?
Killian On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 21:27, Doug Meyer <dame...@raytheon.com> wrote: > Change node definition in slurm.conf for that one node to 1 CPU. > > > > *Doug Meyer* > > > > *From:* slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> *On Behalf Of > *Rutger Vos > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2020 1:20 PM > *To:* Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> > *Subject:* [External] Re: [slurm-users] one job at a time - how to set? > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > thanks very much for your swift reply. So here we would have to convince > the users they'd have to specify this when submitting, right? I.e. 'sbatch > --exclusive myjob.sh', if I understand correctly. Would there be a way to > simply enforce this, i.e. at the slurm.conf level or something? > > > > Thanks again! > > > > Rutger > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:06 PM Renfro, Michael <ren...@tntech.edu> > wrote: > > That’s a *really* old version, but > https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-15.08.13/sbatch.html indicates > there’s an exclusive flag you can set. > > On Apr 29, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Rutger Vos <rutger....@naturalis.nl> wrote: > > *.* > > Hi, > > > > for a smallish machine that has been having degraded performance we want > to implement a policy where only one job (submitted with sbatch) is allowed > to run and any others submitted after it are supposed to wait in line. > > > > I assumed this was straightforward but I can't seem to figure it out. Can > I set that up in slurm.conf or in some other way? Thank you very much for > your help. BTW we are running slurm 15.08.7 if that is at all relevant. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Dr. Rutger A. Vos > > Researcher / Bioinformatician > > > > > > > > +31717519600 - +31627085806 > > rutger....@naturalis.nl - www.naturalis.nl > > Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden > > Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden > > > > <https://www.naturalis.nl/lang-leve> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Met vriendelijke groet, > > > > Dr. Rutger A. Vos > > Researcher / Bioinformatician > > > > > > > > +31717519600 - +31627085806 > > rutger....@naturalis.nl - www.naturalis.nl > > Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden > > Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden > > > > <https://www.naturalis.nl/lang-leve> > > > > > > > > > > > -- Killian Murphy Research Software Engineer Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD +44 (0)1904 32 4753 e-mail disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm
