Danny: a last question. I had tried but still cannot figure how to do it. The GrpWall works as expected, however if for example I would like to query the current value of GrpWall used? How can I do that? sacct +? or directly in the mysql table?
Thanks, Daniel 2011/5/12 Danny Auble <[email protected]> > Hey Daniel, > > > Hi, > > > > Two Questions: > > 1. I would like to ask you if it is possible to create the next kind of > > configuration: > > > > PARTITION-1 priority=90 > > PARTITION-2 priority=50 > > PARTITION-3 priority=10 > > > > What I want to get here is that PARTITION-1 can preempt any of > PARTITION-2 > > or PARTITION-3. But PARTITION-2 must not be able to preempt partition-3. > > > > Any clues on how to get this setup, previously I tried to use something > > like: > > > > PARTITION-3 PreemptMode=suspend > > > > But that of course causes that PARTITION-3 can be preempted by any of the > > other two partitions. > > I don't think you can do this with the partition priority, but this kind of > thing will work with QOS. You might give that a try. It will give you a > bunch more flexibility as well. > > > > > 2. Is there any sacctmgr way to limit the total consumed wall-time? Some > new > > users will be added to our cluster, but we want to add these new accounts > > with a limit on total wall-time usage, then when the user/group reach the > > limit we want to prevent it from executing more jobs. Is it possible to > do > > this with slurm? > > GrpWall. If you use that on a user association the group will just be that > one user, so all their jobs will aggregate together. If you use it on an > account all the user accounts inside that account and all its subaccounts > will be aggregated. > > You have to use the priority/multifactor plugin to make it work. see man > sacctmgr > > Danny > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > > >
