[slurm-users] sbatch --immediate

[Christopher Samuel]

On 03/03/18 08:32, Andy Riebs wrote:

> Is this trying to say that the sbatch option isn't as powerful as
> the option of the same name for srun and salloc, or is it saying
> that the option might not always work?

The former I suspect. That text was added with:

commit e063642d555d938b07a2c4ac9fcde9a4c66dd1fb
Author: Morris Jette <jette at schedmd.com>
Date:   Mon Jul 16 14:18:00 2012 -0700

     Note limited sbatch support for --immediate option

     This addresses trouble ticket 85

and refers to:

https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=85

# The immediate option is only broken with sbatch.  sbatch is handled
# differently than salloc or srun.

cheers,
Chris