[slurm-users] [External] How can I do to prevent a specific job from being prempted?

[Russell Jones]

The other option is creating a "special" partition that only this user(s)
can submit to, where jobs running in that partition have a higher priority
than all the others (if you are using partition priority like we are).

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 3:26 AM Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> Dear Peter,
>
> 顏文 <peteryen2017 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Dear Mr. Zillner
> >
> > I would like the specific running job not being rescheduled , but also
> can not be terminated or cancelled in any way. If the job is cancelled, I
> need to start it over again. Normally this kind of jobs require weeks to
> > finish. So the time costs it take to restart is quite significant. Can
> your suggestions also achieve that? Thanks.
>
> I have not tried this, but could you define a QOS which cannot be
> preempted by the other QOSs?  That way you can also restrict access to
> the QOS, since a non-preemptable QOS will probably be more attractive
> than a preemptable one.  You would then obviously have to explain to the
> users which QOS they should use.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> > with regards,
> > Peter
> >
> > Florian Zillner <fzillner at lenovo.com> 於 2021年9月14日 週二 下午3:40寫道：
> >
> >  See the no-requeue option for SBATCH:
> >
> >  --no-requeue
> >  Specifies that the batch job should never be requeued under any
> circumstances. Setting this option will prevent system administrators from
> being able to restart the job (for example, after a scheduled
> >  downtime), recover from a node failure, or be requeued upon preemption
> by a higher priority job. When a job is requeued, the batch script is
> initiated from its beginning. Also see the --requeue option. The
> >  JobRequeue configuration parameter controls the default behavior on the
> cluster.
> >
> >  https://slurm.schedmd.com/sbatch.html
> >
> >  Get Outlook for Android
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  From: slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of
> 顏文 <peteryen2017 at gmail.com>
> >  Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 7:02:13 AM
> >  To: slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
> >  Subject: [External] [slurm-users] How can I do to prevent a specific
> job from being prempted?
> >
> >  Dear slurm users,
> >
> >  I have some specific jobs that can't be terminated, otherwise they need
> to be rerun from the beginning. Can we simply apply some settings (either
> by user or administrator) so that these jobs will not be
> >  preempted ? Thanks.
> >
> >  with regards,
> >  Peter
>
>
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