<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-size:16px;">Hi.<br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">I'm trying to set <b style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-image-source:initial;border-image-slice:initial;border-image-width:initial;border-image-outset:initial;border-image-repeat:initial;font-family:"Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70, 84, 92);text-align:left;">MaxSubmitJobsPerUser </b>to a QOS in expectation that it will limit a user from submitting more than a certain number of jobs at a time. However it seems to limit the user at a much smaller number of jobs.<br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">I ran the following command to set the limit.<br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font">sacctmgr modify qos normal set MaxSubmitJobsPerUser=144</span><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">I can see that it is set..<br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font"># sacctmgr show qos<br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font"> Name Priority GraceTime Preempt PreemptMode Flags UsageThres UsageFactor GrpTRES GrpTRESMins GrpTRESRunMin GrpJobs GrpSubmit GrpWall MaxTRES MaxTRESPerNode MaxTRESMins MaxWall MaxTRESPU MaxJobsPU MaxSubmitPU MaxTRESPA MaxJobsPA MaxSubmitPA MinTRES<br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font">---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------- ------------- ------------- ------------- ------- --------- ----------- ------------- -------------- ------------- ----------- ------------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------- ----------- -------------<br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font"> normal 0 00:00:00 cluster 1.000000 cpu=72,mem=7+ 144<br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">However, when a user tries to submit a job, they see the error below.<br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font">:[~] > srun -n4 --pty bash</span><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font">srun: error: QOSMaxSubmitJobPerUserLimit</span><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;" class="font">srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Job violates accounting/QOS policy (job submit limit, user's size and/or time limits)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">I checked and made sure that they are well under the set limit of 144. They only have 38 jobs in the system.<br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">Do any of you use this QOS Limit? What am I missing here? <br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;">Thanks for your time! <br></div><div id="sig56753105"><div class="signature">-- <br></div><div class="signature"> Aravindh Sampathkumar<br></div><div class="signature"> aravindh@fastmail.com<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-size:16px;"><br></div></body></html>