[slurm-users] Single user consuming all resources of the cluster

[Patrick Goetz]

What is TRES?

On 02/06/2018 06:03 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 06/02/18 21:40, Matteo F wrote:
> 
>> I've tried to limit the number of running job using Qos -> 
>> MaxJobsPerAccount, but this wouldn't stop a user to just fill up the
>> cluster with fewer (but bigger) jobs.
> 
> You probably want to look at what you can do with the slurmdbd database
> and associations. Things like GrpTRES:
> 
> https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html
> 
> # GrpTRES=<TRES=max TRES,...>
> #     Maximum number of TRES running jobs are able to be allocated in
> # aggregate for this association and all associations which are children
> # of this association. To clear a previously set value use the modify
> # command with a new value of -1 for each TRES id.
> #
> #  NOTE: This limit only applies fully when using the Select Consumable
> # Resource plugin.
> 
> Best of luck,
> Chris
>