Hey Jeff, Thanks for the accolades ;). Have you tried the srun '--exclusive' option? That should keep things separate.
Let us know if that doesn't work, Danny > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 2:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [slurm-dev] Stupid Sbatch Question > > I have a user (in the same sense that I have an ingrown toenail) who > runs a job like this... > > She starts with 'sbatch -p whatever -n 145 scriptname' > The script contains something like: > srun foo & > srun bar > > What's happening is that each core is doubly allocated e.g. 16 procs > running on an 8 core node. Why isn't the second srun constrained by > the resources consumed by the 1st? > > This is running under (the very excellent) Slurm 2.2.3. > > Jeff Katcher > FHCRC Cluster Monkey
