[slurm-users] MaxTime only for a user

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 2/25/21 11:17 AM, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Il 25/02/21 11:00, Ole Holm Nielsen ha scritto:
> 
>> I think so, please see https://slurm.schedmd.com/resource_limits.html
>> and look for the MaxWallDurationPerJob limit.  You have to set that
>> limit on the user's association.
> IIUC the limit in the assoc can't override the one in the partition.
> So the definition will have to be reversed: set the partition limit to
> the max allowed (1h) and limit all users except one in the assoc.

You are right!  According to the resource_limits page the limits have a 
specified precedence.  But now I see that there is an exception listed:

> Note: The precedence order specified above is respected except for the following limits: Max[Time|Wall], [Min|Max]Nodes. For these limits, even if the job is enforced with QOS and/or Association limits, it can't go over the limit imposed at Partition level, even if it listed at the bottom. So the default for these 3 types of limits is that they are upper bound by the Partition one. This Partition level bound can be ignored if the respective QOS PartitionTimeLimit and/or Partition[Max|Min]Nodes flags are set, then the job would be enforced the limits imposed at QOS and/or association level respecting the order above. 


/Ole