[slurm-users] Preemption for licenses

[Kilian Cavalotti]

Hi Allan,

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 3:20 PM Carter, Allan <cartalla at amazon.com> wrote:
> If a job is pending only because it needs a license and all are being used, can it preempt jobs in a lower priority partition that are using the license? Or does preemption only work for compute resources. I've tried to configure preemption, but when I submit a job that used my only license and then submit a similar job to a high priority partition the higher priority job pends with reason "Licenses".

License preemption is expected to come as a new feature in Slurm
23.02: see slide 25 in https://slurm.schedmd.com/SC22/Roadmap.pdf

Cheers,
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Kilian