[slurm-users] Areas for improvement on our site's cluster scheduling

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 05/08/2018 08:44 AM, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote:
> Jonathon A Anderson <jonathon.anderson at colorado.edu> writes:
> 
>> ## Queue stuffing
> 
> There is the bf_max_job_user SchedulerParameter, which is sort of the
> "poor man's MAXIJOB"; it limits the number of jobs from each user the
> backfiller will try to start on each run.  It doesn't do exactly what
> you want, but at least the backfiller will not create reservations for
> _all_ the queue stuffer's jobs.

Adding to this I discuss backfilling configuration in
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_scheduler#scheduler-configuration

The MaxJobCount limit etc. is described in
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_configuration#maxjobcount-limit

/Ole