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its passed as an argument to the batch script
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017, at 06:14 AM, Nathan Vance wrote:
> L,
> I discovered earlier this week (after embarking on a crusade to squash
> nonexistent bugs) that sbatch will ignore any flag that comes after
> the filename of the script to be submitted.>
> For example, I re-purposed a lua script that just spits out the time
> limit of the job and exits with an error:>> /etc/slurm/job_submit.lua:
>> function slurm_job_submit(job_desc, part_list, submit_uid)
>> slurm.log_user("time_limit: %s", job_desc.time_limit)
>> return slurm.ERROR
>> end
>> function slurm_job_modify(job_desc, part_list, submit_uid)
>> end
>
> Here's what I get when I run it in various ways (positional argument
> job.sh bolded):> # sbatch *job.sh*
> sbatch: error: time_limit: 4294967294
> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Unspecified error
> # sbatch --time=0-07:00:00 *job.sh*
> sbatch: error: time_limit: 420
> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Unspecified error
> # sbatch *job.sh* --time=0-07:00:00
> sbatch: error: time_limit: 4294967294
> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Unspecified error
> 4294967294 = 2^32 - 2 is the default time limit, which means that on
> my third run of this script, the time argument is completely ignored!
> This is bad, especially for people who are used to the command line
> where almost every program uses an argument parsing library like
> getopt that works in a manner that's predictable, both for the
> programmer and for the user.> Nathan
>
> On 29 June 2017 at 21:32, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected]> wrote:>> We
> have a 40min default time on our main partition.
>> We are finding that researchers that use
>>
>> #SBATCH --time=0-07:00:00
>>
>> are still having their jobs terminated at 40 minutes.
>>
>> Using slurm 17.2.04 on Centos 7.3
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this?
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> L.
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