Hey Daniel, sshare shows raw usage currently, the grpwall could be added as well, but it isn't there today. As mentioned in a previous email SLURM priority was based on the idea of fairshare scheduling, so the hard limit scheduling hasn't really been flushed out.
Danny On Friday, May 13, 2011 04:03:55 AM you wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > >
