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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi Chris,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Our SchedulerParameters are...</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>SchedulerParameters = bf_window=3600,bf_resolution=180,bf_max_job_user=4</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>I gather that the "bf_window" should be as high as the highest maximum time limit on the partitions (set at 2.5 days = 3600 minutes). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Best regards,</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 20 November 2018 20:12:20<br>
<b>To:</b> slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [slurm-users] Excessive use of backfill on a cluster</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 11:42:49 PM AEDT Baker D. J. wrote:<br>
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> We are running Slurm 18.08.0 on our cluster and I am concerned that Slurm<br>
> appears to be using backfill scheduling excessively.<br>
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What are your SchedulerParameters ?<br>
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All the beest,<br>
Chris<br>
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