We have discovered the following inconsistency, on slurm 15.08.8: If a job script specifies:
---- snip ---- #!/bin/bash #SBATCH --account=staff #SBATCH --time=0:10:0 #SBATCH -J #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=500M #SBATCH --output=out/empty-jobname-%j.out ---- snip ---- sbatch does not report an error about the missing argument to '-J', but silently stops parsing the #SBATCH lines: $ sbatch empty-jobname.sm sbatch: error: --mem-per-cpu specification required, but not provided sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Memory required by task is not available $ (The --mem-per-cpu error here is from our test in job_submit.lua.) However, if the '-J' line is the last line, the error is reported: ---- snip ---- #!/bin/bash #SBATCH --account=staff #SBATCH --time=0:10:0 #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=500M #SBATCH --output=out/empty-jobname-%j.out #SBATCH -J ---- snip ---- $ sbatch empty-jobname.sm sbatch: option requires an argument -- 'J' Submitted batch job 14221261 $ A more consistent behaviour would have been nice. My suggestion is: report error and fail to submit the job. -- Regards, Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient, Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo
