Hello Jordan, On 2016-01-16 01:21, Jordan Willis wrote: > If my partition is used up according to the node configuration, but still has > available CPUS, is there a way to allow a user to who only has a task that > takes 1 cpu on that node? > > For instance here is my partition: > > NODELIST NODES PARTITION STATE NODES(A/I) CPUS CPUS(A/I/O/T) > MEMORY > loma-node[ 38 all* mix 38/0 16+ 981/171/0/1152 64+ > > > According to the nodes, there is nothing Idling, but there are 171 available > cpus. Does anyone know what’s going on? When a new user asks for 1 task, why > can’t they get on one of those free cpus? What should I change in my > configuration.
without seeing your configuration thats just guesswork. Are you using "select/linear" and "Shared=NO"? Apart from that you might want to see the column "Resulting Behavior" to get an idea what you have to check in your config: http://slurm.schedmd.com/cons_res_share.html Regards, Benjamin -- FSU Jena | JULIELab.de/Staff/Benjamin+Redling.html vox: +49 3641 9 44323 | fax: +49 3641 9 44321
