[slurm-users] Issue with salloc

Mahmood Naderan mahmood.nt at gmail.com
Sat May 12 05:55:33 MDT 2018


I tried the following command but it failed

[mahmood at rocks7 ~]$ srun --pty -u /bin/bash -l -a em1 -p IACTIVE --mem=4GB
srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or
account/partition combination specified
[mahmood at rocks7 ~]$ scontrol show partition IACTIVE
PartitionName=IACTIVE
   AllowGroups=ALL AllowAccounts=em1 AllowQos=ALL
   AllocNodes=rocks7 Default=NO QoS=N/A
   DefaultTime=NONE DisableRootJobs=NO ExclusiveUser=NO GraceTime=0 Hidden=NO
   MaxNodes=UNLIMITED MaxTime=UNLIMITED MinNodes=1 LLN=NO
MaxCPUsPerNode=UNLIMITED
   Nodes=compute-0-[4-6]
   PriorityJobFactor=1 PriorityTier=1 RootOnly=NO ReqResv=NO OverSubscribe=NO
   OverTimeLimit=NONE PreemptMode=OFF
   State=UP TotalCPUs=144 TotalNodes=3 SelectTypeParameters=NONE
   DefMemPerNode=UNLIMITED MaxMemPerNode=UNLIMITED



Regards,
Mahmood




On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
> salloc doesn't do that.
>
> We use a 2 line script called "sinteractive" to do this, it's really simple.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exec srun $* --pty -u ${SHELL} -l
>
> That's it..
>
> Hope that helps!
> Chris
> --
>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
>
>



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