[slurm-users] Job limit in slurm.

[navin srivastava]

Hi ole,

Thanks Ole.
After setting the Enforce it worked.
I am new to slurm to thanks for helping me.


Regards
Navin


On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 5:36 PM Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>
wrote:

> Hi Navin,
>
> I wonder if you have configured the Slurm database and the slurmdbd
> daemon?  I think the limit enforcement requires the use of the database.
>
> What is the output of:
>
> $ scontrol show config | grep AccountingStorageEnforce
>
> See also https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html#limit-enforcement
>
> Limit Enforcement
>
> Various limits and limit enforcement are described in the Resource Limits
> web page.
>
> To enable any limit enforcement you must at least have
> AccountingStorageEnforce=limits in your slurm.conf, otherwise, even if you
> have limits set, they will not be enforced. Other options for
> AccountingStorageEnforce and the explanation for each are found on the
> Resource Limits document.
>
> /Ole
>
> On 2/17/20 12:20 PM, navin srivastava wrote:
> > Hi ole,
> >
> > i am submitting 100 of jobs are i see all jobs starting at the same time
> > and all job is going into the run state.
> > if Maxjobs limit is set it should allow only 3 jobs at any point of time.
> >
> > Regards
> > Navin.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:48 PM Ole Holm Nielsen
> > <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk <mailto:Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Navin,
> >
> >     Why do you think the limit is not working?  The MaxJobs limits the
> number
> >     of running jobs to 3, but you can still submit as many jobs as you
> like!
> >
> >     See "man sacctmgr" for definitions of the limits MaxJobs as well as
> >     MaxSubmitJobs.
> >
> >     /Ole
> >
> >     On 2/17/20 12:04 PM, navin srivastava wrote:
> >      > Hi,
> >      >
> >      > Thanks for your script.
> >      > with this i am able to show the limit what i set. but this limt is
> >      > not working.
> >      >
> >      > MaxJobs =        3, current value = 0
> >      >
> >      > Regards
> >      > Navin.
> >      >
> >      > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:13 PM Ole Holm Nielsen
> >      > <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk <mailto:Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>
> >     <mailto:Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk
> >     <mailto:Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     On 2/17/20 11:16 AM, navin srivastava wrote:
> >      >      > i have an issue with the slurm job limit. i applied the
> Maxjobs
> >      >     limit on
> >      >      > user using
> >      >      >
> >      >      >   sacctmgr modify user navin1 set maxjobs=3
> >      >      >
> >      >      > but still i see this is not getting applied. i am still
> bale
> >     to submit
> >      >      > more jobs.
> >      >      > Slurm version is 17.11.x
> >      >      >
> >      >      > Let me know what setting is required to implement this.
> >      >
> >      >     The tool "showuserlimits" tells you all user limits in the
> Slurm
> >      >     database.
> >      >        You can download it from
> >      >
> >
> https://github.com/OleHolmNielsen/Slurm_tools/tree/master/showuserlimits
> >      >     and give it a try:
> >      >
> >      >     $ showuserlimits -u navin1
> >
>
>
>
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