[slurm-users] Backfill pushing jobs back

[Chris Samuel]

Hi David,

On 9/12/20 3:35 am, David Baker wrote:

> We see the following issue with smaller jobs pushing back large jobs. We 
> are using slurm 19.05.8 so not sure if this is patched in newer releases.

This sounds like a problem that we had at NERSC (small jobs pushing back 
multi-thousand node jobs), and we carried a local patch for which Doug 
managed to get upstreamed in 20.02.x (I think it landed in 20.02.3, but 
20.02.6 is the current version).

Hope this helps!
Chris
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