How about using cpusets
Create a boot cpusets with the e cores and start slurm in the p cores 

Yeah showing my age by talking about cpusets

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 6:05 PM Timo Rothenpieler via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:
On 19.02.2025 14:06, Luke Sudbery via slurm-users wrote:
> How much RAM does your laptop have? How much have you told slurm it has?
> How much is needed by the system? Does your task actually need 2GB?
>
> Also your CPU/cores/threads counts don't appear to make sense.

It's probably one of those newer Intel CPUs, with BIGlittle cores, where
only the big cores have hyper threading.
It's not possible to represent those CPUs with SLURM, so you'll probably
need to turn off hyper threading.

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