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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am relatively
new to SLURM, and am having difficulty configuring our
scheduling to behave as we'd like.</div>
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job preemption is configured as follows:<br>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio<br>
PreemptMode=suspend,gang<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This has been
working fine. However, we recently added an older server to the
cluster, and tried to give it a higher weight than our other
servers, with the intent that it would only used when resources
on other lower-weighted nodes are unavailable. What seems to
happen, though, is that a newly submitted job will
preempt/suspend a lower-priority job on a lower-weighted node
before running on the higher-weighted node. What we would like
is for preemption to only occur when no resources are available.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is this possible?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks,</div>
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Administrator</div>
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University</div>
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href="mailto:harvey@bucknell.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">harvey@bucknell.edu</a></div>
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