On 04/11/2016 12:29 PM, Steven Young wrote:
Historically as a site we haven't liked preemption. Looking over configuration details for preemption, we would presumably set PreemptType=preempt/qos, and then we appear to have a limited choice of PreemptMode of which I think the only acceptable option is REQUEUE, as I don't like the option of cancelling user jobs (even with a 12 hour grace time), and not all our user jobs are able to checkpoint. Not great though as some jobs won't be requeue'able. Is the GraceTime option applied if a job is not requeueable, but chosen to be cancelled? I think I'm still looking for a mechanism where I can have a set of nodes which only allow jobs which run for less than 12 hours from most users, but allow longer running jobs for users associated with the high-priority QOS. Cheers, Steve.
Hi Steve, I presume that this wish would be easily fulfilled. You can create two different partitions on the same set of nodes. One of the partition allows no jobs longer than 12 hours. The other partition allows only your VIP users. Best wishes, -- Lennart Karlsson, UPPMAX, Uppsala University, Sweden http://www.uppmax.uu.se/
