[slurm-users] Partition dedicated to batch jobs only

[René Sitt]

Hello,


the easiest way to identify interactive jobs is probably via 
job_submit.lua - if a submitted job does not have an associated job 
script, it's most likely interactive.


As an example snippet, at our cluster we force interactive jobs into 
their own partition (has the advantage that you can attach an 
"interactive" QOS to that partition to enforce specific limits like e.g. 
only allowing one interactive job per user):


--- /etc/slurm/job_submit.lua ---


function slurm_job_submit(job_desc, part_list, submit_uid)

     local log_prefix = "slurm_job_submit"

     local interactive_partition = "interactive"

     -- ... more local variable definitions and setup ...


     -- check for interactive

     if (job_desc.script == nil or job_desc.script == '') then
         job_desc.partition = interactive_partition
         slurm.log_info("%s: normal job seems to be interactive, moved 
to %s partition.", log_prefix, job_desc.partition)
     end


     -- ...some more job filtering ...


     slurm.log_info("%s: for user %u, setting partition(s): %s.", 
log_prefix, submit_uid, job_desc.partition)
     slurm.log_user("Job \"%s\" queued to partition(s): %s.", 
job_desc.name, job_desc.partition)

     return slurm.SUCCESS

end


function slurm_job_modify(job_desc, job_rec, part_list, modify_uid)
    return slurm.SUCCESS
end

slurm.log_info("initialized")
return slurm.SUCCESS


--- /etc/slurm/job_submit.lua ---


Of course, if you only want to keep interactive jobs out of a specific 
partition, you could additionally check job_desc.partition for that 
partition's name in the above if-block and then decide what to do with 
it (change job partition to an allowed one, reject the job completely by 
returning slurm.ERROR, ...)


Best regards,
René Sitt


Am 09.05.22 um 14:17 schrieb Moshe Mergy:
> Hi all,
>
> How could I define a partition dedicated to batch jobs only, i.e. to 
> use with sbatch only,
> not permitting to run srun/interactive jobs on it?
> Using Slurm options ?
> Using a Lua script blocking srun ? (though I don't understand much in 
> Lua scripts)
>
> I currently use Slurm 20.02
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> Moshe
>
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