<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all. I can’t seem to change the account or QOS on a pending job:</div><div><br></div><div>
$ scontrol update job where JobId=133628 set Account=def-eoliver QOS=normal<br>Update of this parameter is not supported: Account=def-eoliver<br>Request aborted
</div><br>$ squeue -j 133628<br> JOBID USER ACCOUNT NAME ST TIME_LEFT NODES CPUS TRES_PER_N MIN_MEM NODELIST (REASON)<br> 133628 xianmin ctb-eoliver XXXXXXXX-XXXX PD 3:00:00 6 240 N/A 600M (QOSGrpCpuLimit)<br><br>$ sacctmgr show associations where user=xianmin -P<br>Cluster|Account|User|Partition|Share|Priority|GrpJobs|GrpTRES|GrpSubmit|GrpWall|GrpTRESMins|MaxJobs|MaxTRES|MaxTRESPerNode|MaxSubmit|MaxWall|MaxTRESMins|QOS|Def QOS|GrpTRESRunMins<br>siku|ctb-eoliver|xianmin||1000|1000||||||||||||ctb-eoliver|ctb-eoliver|<br>siku|def-eoliver|xianmin||1000|1||||||||||||normal||<br><br>$ scontrol --version<br>slurm 19.05.2<br><br>I can’t seem to find any variation of that scontrol update command that works, including dropping the QOS. But <a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/scontrol.html">https://slurm.schedmd.com/scontrol.html</a> lists Account among the SPECIFICATIONS FOR UPDATE COMMAND, JOBS. Is it really not supported, in contradiction of the documentation? Or is there something in the association that’s getting in the way? Or am I messing up the syntax somehow?<br><br>What am I missing here?<br><br>(Apologies if this comes through twice. I think I sent it in from an unsubscribed address the first time.)<br><br>Ross Dickson <a href="https://www.ace-net.ca/">https://www.ace-net.ca/</a><br><a href="mailto:ross.dickson@dal.ca">ross.dickson@dal.ca</a> <a href="mailto:ross.dickson@ace-net.ca">ross.dickson@ace-net.ca</a> <br></div>