Hello, have you tried upgrading to slurm 16.05? This commit, which made it to 16.05, looks promising: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/33bf4d29aa72a29ea40d5202a50efdfeeb9f4425
best regards Maciej 2016-06-13 8:58 GMT+02:00 Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de>: > > Hi, > > One of our users was carrying out some tests and running some very short > jobs with a TimeLimit of 60s. However, because one of the nodes had to > be booted, which takes a couple of minutes, the jobs were terminated > with TIMEOUT as the state. > > I am aware that we can set BatchStartTimeout to a larger value, but > wouldn't it make more sense if the run-time for the job only started to > accumulate, once the slurmd on the node became available? > > Cheers, > > Loris > > -- > Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) > ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de >
