David, take a look at the various instances of the string "LLN" throughout slurm.conf, as well as pack_serial_at_end. (I suspect you may want LLN=no on your partition definition.)
Best, Lyn On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:51 AM David Chaffin <david.j.chaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > replying to myself as I can't quite figure out how to reply to Jurgen in > digest. > > Jurgen's pointers are good for some of our other issues, but I misstated > the question, it should have been how do I send the small HTC job to the > node that has currently the smallest free cores? > > RTFM and I think this is working > SelectTypeParameters=CR_Core,CR_Pack_Nodes,CR_CORE_DEFAULT_DIST_BLOCK > > Thanks, > David > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 2:44 PM David Chaffin <david.j.chaf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> we get a lot of small sub-node jobs that we want to pack together. Maui >> does this pretty well with the smallest node that will hold the job, >> NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY MINRESOURCE >> I can't figure out the slurm equivalent. Default backfill isn't working >> well. Anyone know of one? >> >> Thanks, >> David >> >>
