[slurm-dev] Re: Large memory jobs block small memory job in same partition

2014-02-05 Thread Loris Bennett
Loris Bennett loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de writes: We do already use weighting, but my understanding was that this would only affect the order in which resources are assigned and not prevent a job from starting even when resources are available. I assume that there is some valid reason for a

[slurm-dev] Re: Large memory jobs block small memory job in same partition

2014-02-05 Thread Pancorbo, Juan
jobs block small memory job in same partition Loris Bennett loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de writes: We do already use weighting, but my understanding was that this would only affect the order in which resources are assigned and not prevent a job from starting even when resources are available. I

[slurm-dev] Re: Large memory jobs block small memory job in same partition

2014-02-04 Thread Lyn Gerner
Hi Loris, You might check out the Weight parameter in the Node section of the slurm.conf documentation. I believe you could just give the fat nodes a higher node weight than the thinner nodes, to achieve your goal. Best, Lyn On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Loris Bennett

[slurm-dev] Re: Large memory jobs block small memory job in same partition

2014-02-04 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/14 09:27, Lyn Gerner wrote: You might check out the Weight parameter in the Node section of the slurm.conf documentation. I believe you could just give the fat nodes a higher node weight than the thinner nodes, to achieve your goal.