[slurm-users] Force run a waiting job

[John Hearns]

Alfonso,  the way I would do this is to put all the users jobs on hold,
using  scontrol hold
Then change the limits , then release the job you want to run.

this is probably not the smartest way to achieve this.


On 28 May 2018 at 09:53, Pardo Diaz Alfonso <alfonso.pardo at ciemat.es> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I've a list of users. One of them, has multiple jobs, some running, some
> waiting due his limits. He asks me if I can put one of these waiting jobs
> in running (I have free resources).
>
> How I can put a job running, and only a specific job? If I give him more
> resources, may be can run other of his waiting job, and not the job he
> wants run.
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> I tried putting the priority in "99999" whith "scontrol update
> jobid=XXXXXXX pritory=99999" and updating his limits. But when I apply the
> new limits other job is running and not the job he wants and that I have
> modified the priority.
>
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> Any idea?
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