Re: [slurm-users] MaxJobs-limits

2020-01-29 Thread Renfro, Michael
If you specify no cores or threads for a given job, you should end up with 1 task per node, and 1 cpu per task (see the sections for ntasks, ntasks-per-node, and cpus-per-task at [1] and [2]). And yes, if you have one or more 10-core systems, and submit 8 1-core jobs, they’ll default to

Re: [slurm-users] MaxJobs-limits

2020-01-28 Thread zz
Hi Michael, Thanks for quick response what if we submit multiple job with out specifying core or thread in the same, all jobs will run parallely depends on the cpu available in the node, when no resouce available the job will go to queue as pending job. if i have 10 cpu in the system, if i submit

Re: [slurm-users] MaxJobs-limits

2020-01-28 Thread Renfro, Michael
For the first question: you should be able to define each node’s core count, hyperthreading, or other details in slurm.conf. That would allow Slurm to schedule (well-behaved) tasks to each node without anything getting overloaded. For the second question about jobs that aren’t well-behaved (a

[slurm-users] MaxJobs-limits

2020-01-28 Thread zz
Hi, I am testing slurm for a small cluster, I just want to know that is there anyway I could set a max job limit per node, I have nodes with different specs running under same qos. Please ignore if it is a stupid question. Also I would like to know what will happen when a process which is