Dear Paul,

You should be able to release the job with the command:
scontrol release JOBID

Regards,
Carles Fenoy
Barcelona Supercomputing Center


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Carl Schmidtmann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, changing the priority will release the hold. The priority value you
> set will determine when it will attempt to run again. So if you set the
> priority higher than other jobs it will run next. If it is lower than other
> jobs it will wait.
>
> Carl
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Okay, I did see a con/res error associated with these jobs.  So just to be
> clear modifying the job priority will clear the Admin Hold state?  I found
> that resubmitting the job also works, but there is no way to do that
> besides removing the job and having the user resubmit it.
>
> -Paul Edmon-
>
>
> On 4/29/2013 9:05 AM, Carles Fenoy wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
>  This can happen if you are using gpu GRES with cpus dedicated to some
> gpus. As Carl has said, check the slurmctld log for any error.
>
>  Regards,
>  Carles Fenoy
>  Barcelona Supercomputing Center
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Carl Schmidtmann <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am not sure of all the reasons a job might get to the Admin Hold state
>> but I have seen it when a job tries to run but the resources it uses
>> generate an error instead of running the job. Once they are in this state
>> they will not be looked at by the scheduler because the job has its
>> priority set to zero. Changing the priority to something greater than zero
>> will put them back into the scheduling. However, if the error that caused
>> them to fail still exists they will return to the Admin Hold state when
>> they next try to run.
>>
>> Check the log files for the failure and possible reason.
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >
>> > What does this mean?  I can't find any documentation and I have
>> > several
>> > jobs in our queues which are getting this Reason Waiting assigned
>> > them
>> > automatically by SLURM.  The jobs themselves appear valid, but I
>> > can't
>> > force them to lose this state even though there are enough nodes for
>> > the
>> > job open.
>> >
>> > -Paul Edmon-
>> >
>>
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>> Carl Schmidtmann
>> Center for Integrated Research Computing
>> University of Rochester
>> - Our Annual CIRC Poster Session is May 10, 2013
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>>
>>
>>
>
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> Carl Schmidtmann
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> University of Rochester
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