[slurm-users] sbatch - accept jobs above limits

[Stephen Cousins]

What I'm saying is that the job might not be able to run in that partition.
Ever. The job might be asking for more resources than the partition can
provide. Maybe I'm wrong but it would help to know what the partition
definition is, along with what resources the nodes in that partition have
specified (both of these in slurm.conf) and then what the job is asking for.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 7:36 PM <z148x at arcor.de> wrote:

> Yes, the partition does not meet the requirements now.
>
> The job should still be submitted and wait until requirements are
> available.
>
>
> On 09.02.22 00:11, Stephen Cousins wrote:
> > I think this message comes up when there are no nodes in that partition
> > have the resources capable to meet the requirements. Can you show what
> the
> > partition definition is in slurm.conf along with what the job is asking
> for?
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 5:25 PM <z148x at arcor.de> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> sbatch jobs are immediately rejected if no suitable node is available in
> >> the configuration.
> >>
> >>
> >> sbatch: error: Memory specification can not be satisfied
> >> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Requested node configuration
> >> is not available
> >>
> >> These jobs should be accepted, if a suitable node will be active soon.
> >> For example, these jobs could be in PartitionConfig.
> >>
> >> Is that configurable?
> >>
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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