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<tt>Jeff, <br>
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Create a qos with maxjobs defined. <br>
</tt><tt><a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/qos.html">https://slurm.schedmd.com/qos.html</a><br>
</tt><tt><a
href="https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_accounting#quality-of-service-qos">https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_accounting#quality-of-service-qos</a><br>
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<tt><tt>If you haven't used slurm qos before, you may want to check
out the other limits possible, they are more flexible than
maxjobs.</tt><br>
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Add the qos to the partition (qos=).<br>
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-b<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/9/19 4:18 PM, Jeffrey R. Lang
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I need to set up a partition that limits
the number of jobs allowed to run at one time. Looking at
the slurm.conf page for partition definitions I don’t see a
MaxJobs option.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to limit the number of jobs
in a partition?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Jeff<o:p></o:p></p>
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