[slurm-users] possible to set memory slack space before killing jobs?

[Bjørn-Helge Mevik]

I don't think Slurm has any facility for soft memory limits.

But you could emulate it by simply configure the nodes in slurm.conf
with, e.g., 15% higher RealMemory value than what is actually available
on the node.  Then a node with 256 GiB RAM would be able to run 9 jobs,
each asking for 32 GiB RAM.

(You wouldn't get the effect that a job would be allowed to exceed its
soft limit for a set amount of time before getting killed, though.)

-- 
Regards,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo
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