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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hello Byron:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m guessing that your job is asking for more HW than the highmem_p<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">has in it, or more cores or RAM within a node than any of the nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">have, or something like that. 'scontrol show job 10860160' might<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">help. You can also look in slurmctld.log for that jobid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Brunk, system administrator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enterprise IT Svcs, the University of Georgia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces@lists.schedmd.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>byron<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:35<br>
<b>To:</b> Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [slurm-users] job stuck as pending - reason "PartitionConfig"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I try to submit a job to one of our partitions it just stay in the stay pending with the reason "PartitionConfig". Can someone point me in the right direction for how to troubleshoot this? I'm a bit stumpped.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some details of the setup<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The version is 19.05.7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the job that is stuck in state pending<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON)<br>
10860160 highmem MooseBen byron PD 0:00 16 (PartitionConfig)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">$ sinfo -p highmem<br>
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST<br>
highmem up infinite 1 drain intel-0012<br>
highmem up infinite 19 idle intel-[0001-0011,0013-0020]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The output from scontrol show part<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PartitionName=highmem<br>
AllowGroups=ALL AllowAccounts=ALL AllowQos=ALL<br>
AllocNodes=ALL Default=NO QoS=N/A<br>
DefaultTime=02:00:00 DisableRootJobs=NO ExclusiveUser=NO GraceTime=0 Hidden=NO<br>
MaxNodes=UNLIMITED MaxTime=UNLIMITED MinNodes=0 LLN=NO MaxCPUsPerNode=UNLIMITED<br>
Nodes=intel-00[01-20]<br>
PriorityJobFactor=1 PriorityTier=1 RootOnly=NO ReqResv=NO OverSubscribe=EXCLUSIVE<br>
OverTimeLimit=NONE PreemptMode=REQUEUE<br>
State=UP TotalCPUs=320 TotalNodes=20 SelectTypeParameters=NONE<br>
JobDefaults=(null)<br>
DefMemPerNode=UNLIMITED MaxMemPerNode=UNLIMITED<o:p></o:p></p>
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