Hi The PRIORITY reason doesn't mean that there are available resources for your job, but that there is a more priority job "reserving" the free resources and is waiting to be able to start. Usually there is only 1 job pending with RESOURCES reason and all the other are pending with the PRIORITY reason. If you configure backfilling and job PRIORITY pending job can end before the RESOURCES pending job start, then it will be backfilled.
Regards, Carles Fenoy Barcelona Supercomputing Center On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Frederik Treue <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > A newbie, and probably trivial, question: According to the man-page, a > job may be held due to RESOURCES if some of the consumable resources > required by the job are not available, since they are being used by > other jobs: This makes sense. However, it can also be held due to > PRIORITY - according to the man-page, this means that a job with a > higher priority exists in the same partition (pool of resources?) as my > job. But since the reason given is _not_ RESOURCES, ie. the resources my > job requires is supposedly available(?), why does it matter if another > higher priority job exists? > > /Frederik Treue > Ph.d. student at > DTU/physics-PPFE > -- -- Carles Fenoy
