Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-12 Thread Chris Samuel
On 5/2/20 1:44 pm, Antony Cleave wrote: Hi, from what you are describing it sounds like jobs are backfilling in front and stopping the large jobs from starting We use a feature that SchedMD implemented for us called "bf_min_prio_reserve" which lets you set a priority threshold below which Sl

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-12 Thread Loris Bennett
Loris Bennett writes: > Hello David, > > David Baker writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I've taken a very good look at our cluster, however as yet not made >> any significant changes. The one change that I did make was to >> increase the "jobsizeweight". That's now our dominant parameter and it >> does e

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-05 Thread Antony Cleave
> *From:* slurm-users on behalf of > Renfro, Michael > *Sent:* 31 January 2020 22:08 > *To:* Slurm User Community List > *Subject:* Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs > > Slurm 19.05 now, though all these settings were in effect on 17.02 until > quite rece

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-05 Thread Loris Bennett
------------------ > From: slurm-users on behalf of > Killian Murphy > Sent: 04 February 2020 10:48 > To: Slurm User Community List > Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs > > Hi David. > > I&#x

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-04 Thread David Baker
please? Best regards, David From: slurm-users on behalf of Killian Murphy Sent: 04 February 2020 10:48 To: Slurm User Community List Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs Hi David. I'd love to hear back about the changes that you make and ho

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-04 Thread Killian Murphy
--- > *From:* slurm-users on behalf of > Renfro, Michael > *Sent:* 31 January 2020 22:08 > *To:* Slurm User Community List > *Subject:* Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs > > Slurm 19.05 now, though all these settings were in effect on 17.02 until >

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-02-04 Thread David Baker
David From: slurm-users on behalf of Renfro, Michael Sent: 31 January 2020 22:08 To: Slurm User Community List Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs Slurm 19.05 now, though all these settings were in effect on 17.02 until quite recently. If

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-01-31 Thread Renfro, Michael
early > release of v18. > > Best regards, > David > > From: slurm-users on behalf of > Renfro, Michael > Sent: 31 January 2020 17:23:05 > To: Slurm User Community List > Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs > > I missed reading w

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-01-31 Thread David Baker
From: slurm-users on behalf of Renfro, Michael Sent: 31 January 2020 17:23:05 To: Slurm User Community List Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs I missed reading what size your cluster was at first, but found it on a second read. Our

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-01-31 Thread Renfro, Michael
ot; the system. The larger jobs at the > expense of the small fry for example, however that is a difficult decision > that means that someone has got to wait longer for results.. > > Best regards, > David > From: slurm-users on behalf of > Renfro, Michael > Sent

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-01-31 Thread David Baker
Slurm User Community List Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs Greetings, fellow general university resource administrator. Couple things come to mind from my experience: 1) does your serial partition share nodes with the other non-serial partitions? 2) what’s your m

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-01-31 Thread Renfro, Michael
Greetings, fellow general university resource administrator. Couple things come to mind from my experience: 1) does your serial partition share nodes with the other non-serial partitions? 2) what’s your maximum job time allowed, for serial (if the previous answer was “yes”) and non-serial parti

Re: [slurm-users] Longer queuing times for larger jobs

2020-01-31 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi David, David Baker writes: > Hello, > > Our SLURM cluster is relatively small. We have 350 standard compute > nodes each with 40 cores. The largest job that users can run on the > partition is one requesting 32 nodes. Our cluster is a general > university research resource and so there are man