[slurm-users] Maxjobs not being enforced

Tina Fora tfora at riseup.net
Tue Sep 17 20:42:39 UTC 2019


# sacctmgr modify user lif6 set maxjobs=100

# sacctmgr list assoc user=lif6 format=user,maxjobs,maxsubmit,maxtresmins
    User MaxJobs MaxSubmit   MaxTRESMins
---------- ------- --------- -------------
  lif6      100



> Hi, Tina,
>
> Could you send the command you ran?
>
> David
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:06 PM Tina Fora <tfora at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Slurm user,
>>
>> We have 'AccountingStorageEnforce=limits,qos' set in our slurm.conf.
>> I've
>> added maxjobs=100 for a particular user causing havoc on our shared
>> storage. This setting is still not being enforced and the user is able
>> to
>> launch 1000s of jobs.
>>
>> I also ran 'scontrol reconfig' and even restarted slurmd on the computes
>> but no luck. I'm on 17.11. Are there additional steps to limit a user?
>>
>> Best,
>> T
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> David Rhey
> ---------------
> Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services
> University of Michigan
>





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