What do you mean by change the characteristics defined? A user should not be able to go over a partition limit and if you are enforcing a QOS a user should not be able to go over any limits set there. In the examples you had before the job only got 1 cpu but was not bound to it so ran on both of them.
These look different than before since you ask for 2 and they appear to run, assuming you haven't changed your QOS that shouldn't happen. I am guessing the example were not the actual examples since the partition you specified was sec4 and the output of squeue claims sec4000. You are using 2.3 correct? I am wondering if perhaps you have an older version based off the comments earlier about a note in the man page about the limits not being enforced. What does sinfo -V tell you? luis <luis.r...@uam.es> wrote: Dear ALL: Thank you all for the help. I work with what you told me. >From what I have read, users can change the characteristics defined in the >partitiomname or/and in the "qos" using the command line. Example: sbatch -p sec4 --qos=sec4000 -n2 lanza09-1-b tres_forma1c_2-bis or sbatch -p sec4 --qos=sec4000 --nodes=1-1 --ntasks=2 lanza09-1-b tres_forma1c_2-bis Squeue output: gaussian> squeue JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) 213 sec4000 lanza09- luisf R 0:08 1 calc3 212 sec4000 lanza09- luisf R 0:23 1 calc2 both jobs are with 2 cpus. Is there any way to prevent users from modifying that characteristics. Sincerely, Luis Felipe Ruiz Nieto
