[slurm-users] maxim number of pending jobs

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 03/08/2018 04:37 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> On 03/08/2018 10:29 AM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
>> On 03/08/2018 04:00 PM, Renat Yakupov wrote:
>>> is there a limit to a maximum number of jobs that can be queued
>>> in pending state? If so, how can I find it out?
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>> Maybe this answers your question?
>>
>> scontrol show config | grep MaxJobCount
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>> If this was your question, you may find my script warn_maxjobs
>> useful, see
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> What
>>
> do you do with these? Run them by hand? Schedule them up? Run
> from Nagios or similar?

You may run warn_maxjobs from crontab, see the comments in the script:
https://github.com/OleHolmNielsen/Slurm_tools/blob/master/jobs/warn_maxjobs

/Ole