[slurm-users] [Long] Why are tasks started on a 30 second clock?

[Benjamin Redling]

On 25.07.19 20:11, Kirill Katsnelson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 8:16 AM Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca 
> <mailto:hahn at mcmaster.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     how about a timeout from elsewhere?  for instance, when I see a 30s
>     delay,
>     I normally at least check DNS, which can introduce such quantized
>     delays.
> 
> 
> Thanks, it's a good guess, but is very unlikely the case.

If the 30s delay is only for jobs after the first full queue than it is 
backfill in action?

bf_interval=#
The number of seconds between backfill iterations
...
Default: 30



Regards,
Benjamin