[slurm-dev] Re: Memory bounds for jobs

2017-05-04 Thread Diego Zuccato
Il 27/04/2017 03:30, Alexander Vorobiev ha scritto: > The question is how to achieve that with job/partition configuration? I'm no expert, but I think you can't do that with Slurm. The maximum memory a job can use must be defined before the job starts, to allow the scheduler to spawn other jobs

[slurm-dev] Re: Memory bounds for jobs

2017-04-26 Thread Alexander Vorobiev
Thanks for the reply! A concrete example is interactive jobs (R, python, etc). I only want the users to request minimum needed amount of memory but then I don't want their session to generate an error if they try to allocate more memory - and the free memory is available in the system. The upper

[slurm-dev] Re: Memory bounds for jobs

2017-04-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(I am by no means an expert, these observations are based on how our clusters function and some things may actually be more configurable) On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Alexander Vorobiev < alexander.vorob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I seem to be confused about memory configuration for slurm jobs.