Re: [slurm-users] How to force jobs to run next in queue

2019-03-12 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Sean Brisbane writes: > Does anyone have a feeling for why setting a high Priority on a partition > makes jobs run in that partition first regardless that a job in a different > Partition may have a much higher overall priority? Perhaps because that is what it was designed to do? Did you try us

Re: [slurm-users] How to force jobs to run next in queue

2019-03-12 Thread Thomas M. Payerle
Are you uising the prioirty/multifactor plugin? What are the values of the various Priority* weight factors? On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:42 PM Sean Brisbane wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your help. > > Either setting qos or setting priority doesn't work for me. However I > have found the cause if

Re: [slurm-users] How to force jobs to run next in queue

2019-03-12 Thread Sean Brisbane
Hi, Thanks for your help. Either setting qos or setting priority doesn't work for me. However I have found the cause if not the reason. Using a Priority setting on the partition called "Priority" in slurm.conf seems to force all jobs waiting on this queue to run first regardless of any qos set

Re: [slurm-users] How to force jobs to run next in queue

2019-03-12 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Sean Brisbane writes: > I'm trying to troubleshoot why the highest priority job is not next to run, > jobs in the partition called "Priority" seem to run first. > [...] > The partition called "Priority" has a priority boost assigned through qos. > > PartitionName=Priority Nodes=compute[01-02] De

[slurm-users] How to force jobs to run next in queue

2019-03-11 Thread Sean Brisbane
Hi, I'm looking to have a way an administrator can boost any job to be next to run when resources become available. What is the best practice way to do this? Happy to try something new :-D The way I thought to do this was to have a qos with a large priority and manually assign this to the job.