[slurm-users] sbatch - accept jobs above limits

[Ryan Novosielski]

I’m not 100% certain that this affects this situation, but there’s a slurm.conf setting called EnforcePartLimits that you might want to change.

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> On Feb 8, 2022, at 5:26 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
>