[slurm-users] Re: Implementing a "soft" wall clock limit

Hi Davide,

I think it should be possible to emulate this via preemption: if you set PreemptMode to CANCEL, a preempted job will behave just as if it reached the end of its wall time. Then, you can use PreemptExemptTime as your soft wall time limit -- the job will not be preempted before PreemptExemptTime has passed.

See https://slurm.schedmd.com/preempt.html

Best,

A.