[slurm-users] one job at a time - how to set?

[Killian Murphy]

Hi Rutger.

Are you trying to have one job *per user* running in your partition? Or
just one job total?

Killian

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 21:27, Doug Meyer <dameyer at raytheon.com> wrote:

> Change node definition in slurm.conf for that one node to 1 CPU.
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> *Doug Meyer*
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> *From:* slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> *On Behalf Of
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> *Subject:* [External] Re: [slurm-users] one job at a time - how to set?
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> Hi Michael,
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> thanks very much for your swift reply. So here we would have to convince
> the users they'd have to specify this when submitting, right? I.e. 'sbatch
> --exclusive myjob.sh', if I understand correctly. Would there be a way to
> simply enforce this, i.e. at the slurm.conf level or something?
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> Thanks again!
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:06 PM Renfro, Michael <Renfro at tntech.edu>
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> That’s a *really* old version, but
> https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-15.08.13/sbatch.html indicates
> there’s an exclusive flag you can set.
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> On Apr 29, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Rutger Vos <rutger.vos at naturalis.nl> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> for a smallish machine that has been having degraded performance we want
> to implement a policy where only one job (submitted with sbatch) is allowed
> to run and any others submitted after it are supposed to wait in line.
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> I assumed this was straightforward but I can't seem to figure it out. Can
> I set that up in slurm.conf or in some other way? Thank you very much for
> your help. BTW we are running slurm 15.08.7 if that is at all relevant.
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> Best wishes,
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Killian Murphy
Research Software Engineer

Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories
University of York
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