"Loris Bennett" <[email protected]>
writes:

> Hi,
>
> With version 2.4.5, if a node was draining, once it became drained it
> would not get powered down via the suspend mechanism.  This was arguably
> the wrong behaviour from an energy-saving point of view.
>
> With version 14.11.8, a drained node will get powered down.  However,
> when jobs are submitted which the node could run, the node is powered
> up, jobs start, but then node is then automatically placed in the state
> 'draining'.  This is arguably the wrong behaviour from the point of view
> of fixing what ever problem lead to the draining in the first place.
>
> Ideally nodes which are drained and powered down should stay in the
> state 'drained' and thus not be restarted.  What would be the correct
> configuration for this?

In the change log for 14.11.10 it says

  If a node is in DOWN or DRAIN state, leave it unavailable for
  allocation when powered down.

Is this a fix for the problem described above?

Cheers,

Loris

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