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

[Jaekyeom Kim]

Thank you for the answer.
I wasn't aware of that file.
I'll look into it!

Best,
Jaekyeom


On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 3:27 AM Renfro, Michael <Renfro at tntech.edu> wrote:

> 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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