[slurm-users] Correct way to give srun and sbatch different MaxTime values?

[Renfro, Michael]

Untested, but you should be able to use a job_submit.lua file to detect if the job was started with srun or sbatch:

  *   Check with (job_desc.script == nil or job_desc.script == '')
  *   Adjust job_desc.time_limit accordingly

Here, I just gave people a shell function "hpcshell", which automatically drops them in a time-limited partition. Easier for them, fewer idle resources for everyone:

hpcshell ()
{
    srun --partition=interactive $@ --pty $SHELL -i
}
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Hi,

I'd like to prevent my Slurm users from taking up resources with dummy shell process jobs left unaware/intentionally.
To that end, I simply want to put a tougher maximum time limit for srun only.
One possible way might be to wrap the srun binary.
But could someone tell me if there is any proper way to do it, please?

Best,
Jaekyeom

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