I'm trying to set up GANG scheduling with Slurm on my single-node server so the people at the lab can run experiments without blocking each other (so if say someone has to run some code that takes days to finish, other jobs that take less have the chance to run alternated with it and so they don't have to wait days until they can run) I followed the GANG scheduling slurm.conf setup tutorial on the slurm website, and to check if it's working properly I launched a bunch of jobs that print the current time and then sleep for a while. But when I check squeue, the jobs never alternate, they run sequentially one after the other. Why is this happening? Here's my slurm.conf file: # See the slurm.conf man page for more information. ClusterName=localcluster SlurmctldHost=localhost ProctrackType=proctrack/linuxproc ReturnToService=1 SlurmctldPidFile=/var/run/slurmctld.pid SlurmctldPort=6817 SlurmdPidFile=/var/run/slurmd.pid SlurmdPort=6818 SlurmdSpoolDir=/var/lib/slurm/slurmd SlurmUser=slurm StateSaveLocation=/var/lib/slurm/slurmctld TaskPlugin=task/none # TIMERS InactiveLimit=0 KillWait=30 MinJobAge=300 SlurmctldTimeout=120 SlurmdTimeout=300 Waittime=0 # SCHEDULING #Seteado para que cada laburo alterne cada 15 segundos SchedulerTimeSlice=15 SchedulerType=sched/builtin SelectType=select/linear SelectTypeParameters=CR_Memory PreemptMode=GANG # LOGGING AND ACCOUNTING JobCompType=jobcomp/none JobAcctGatherFrequency=30 SlurmctldDebug=info SlurmctldLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log SlurmdDebug=info SlurmdLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmd.log # COMPUTE NODES NodeName=lab04 CPUs=48 CoresPerSocket=12 ThreadsPerCore=2 State=UNKNOWN RealMemory=257249 PartitionName=LocalQ Nodes=ALL Default=YES MaxTime=INFINITE State=UP OverSubscribe=FORCE:6 DefMemPerNode=257249 MaxMemPerNode=257249

From what I understand, SchedulerTimeSlice=15 means that jobs should alternate running every 15 seconds.

This is the job I'm launching with sbatch (launching many copies of this job one after the other): #!/bin/bash #SBATCH -J test # Job name #SBATCH -o job.%j.out # Name of stdout output file (%j expands to %jobId) #SBATCH -N 1 # Total number of nodes requested echo "Test output from Slurm Testjob" date sleep 10 date sleep 10 date sleep 10 date sleep 10 I would expect jobs to print one or two dates, then the Slurm scheduler comes and lets another job run in the meantime, and then the final print(s) come with a delay way greater than 10secs However after launching many copies of this job this is what I see on squeue : Before the first job launched is done: JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) 18 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Resources) 19 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Priority) 20 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Priority) 21 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Priority) 17 LocalQ test eiarussi R 0:31 1 lab04 After that job ends: JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) 19 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Resources) 20 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Priority) 21 LocalQ test eiarussi PD 0:00 1 (Priority) 18 LocalQ test eiarussi R 0:02 1 lab04 Why did the first job run for 30+ seconds uninterrupted, instead of another job being allowed to run after 15 seconds? Am I misunderstanding how GANG scheduling works, or is the a problem in my conf file?