[slurm-users] Job error when using --job-name=`basename $PWD`

[Brian Andrus]

Yeah, you can't do that in that fashion.

If you want to do that, I'd suggest you put the option in the sbatch 
command you use to submit the script so:

sbatch --job-name=`basename $PWD` /path/to/script.sh


Brian Andrus


On 7/28/2019 10:51 PM, Verzelloni Fabio wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I'm experiencing a weird issue, when submitting a job like that:
> -------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> #SBATCH --job-name=`basename $PWD`
> #SBATCH --ntasks=2
> srun -n 2 hostname
> -------------------------
> Output:
> srun: error: Unable to create step for job 15387: More processors requested than permitted
>
> If I submit a job like that:
> -------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> #SBATCH --job-name=myjob
> #SBATCH --ntasks=2
> srun -n 2 hostname
> -------------------------
> Output:
> Mynode-001
> Mynode-001
>
> If I decrease the number of task it works fine:
> -------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> #SBATCH --job-name=`basename $PWD`
> #SBATCH --ntasks=1
> srun -n 1 hostname
> -------------------------
> Output:
> Mynode-001
>
> The slurm version is 18.08.8, is that a bug in slurm?
>
> Thanks
> Fabio
>
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