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

[Rutger Vos]

One job total!

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:37 PM Killian Murphy <killian.murphy at york.ac.uk>
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> Hi Rutger.
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> Are you trying to have one job *per user* running in your partition? Or
> just one job total?
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> Killian
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> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 21:27, Doug Meyer <dameyer at raytheon.com> wrote:
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>> 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 *Rutger Vos
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2020 1:20 PM
>> *To:* Slurm User Community List <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
>> *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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>> Rutger
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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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>> Dr. Rutger A. Vos
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>> Met vriendelijke groet,
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>> Dr. Rutger A. Vos
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Met vriendelijke groet,

Dr. Rutger A. Vos
Researcher / Bioinformatician






+31717519600 - +31627085806
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