[slurm-users] Limit Number of Jobs per User in Queue?

Sean Maxwell stm at case.edu
Wed Mar 18 17:21:34 UTC 2020


Hi Mike,

I think you want to set MaxSubmitJobs on the users account association. The
parameter is described in the sacctmgr documentation as being the maximum
number of jobs a user can have in state running or pending.

https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html

Thanks,

-Sean

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:12 PM Hanby, Mike <mhanby at uab.edu> wrote:

> Howdy,
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> We are running Slurm 18.08. We have a user who has, twice, submitted over
> 15 thousand jobs to the cluster (the queue normally has a couple thousand
> jobs at any given time).
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> This results in Slurm being unresponsive to user requests / job submits. I
> suspect the scheduler is getting bogged down doing backfill processing.
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> Is there any way to limit the maximum number of jobs a single user can
> have in the queue at any given time?
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> Mike Hanby
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> mhanby @ uab.edu
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> Systems Analyst III - Enterprise
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> IT Research Computing Services
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> The University of Alabama at Birmingham
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