Hi Allan, On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 3:20 PM Carter, Allan <carta...@amazon.com> wrote: > If a job is pending only because it needs a license and all are being used, > can it preempt jobs in a lower priority partition that are using the license? > Or does preemption only work for compute resources. I've tried to configure > preemption, but when I submit a job that used my only license and then submit > a similar job to a high priority partition the higher priority job pends with > reason "Licenses".
License preemption is expected to come as a new feature in Slurm 23.02: see slide 25 in https://slurm.schedmd.com/SC22/Roadmap.pdf Cheers, -- Kilian
