[slurm-users] Difference between fairshare and fair-share?

Paul Edmon pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu
Thu Jun 25 13:45:11 UTC 2020


Yes.  I have a discussion here which might be useful:

https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/fairshare/

Note this is using the classic fairshare not FairTree which is now the 
default for Slurm.

-Paul Edmon-

On 6/25/2020 9:23 AM, Durai Arasan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In slurm accounting there is the parameter "fairshare" that is 
> arbitrarily set by the administrator for associations using sacctmgr.
>
> And there is the factor "fair-share" in slurm priority, which is not 
> set by the administrator but calculated from the amount of resources 
> used and the resources promised (correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Unfortunately both these concepts are used to determine priority and 
> so it confuses me.
>
> Are these two concepts different?
>
> Thanks,
> Durai Arasan
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