Re: [slurm-users] Job preempts entire host instead of single job

Hi I believe this is how the preemption algorithm works- it selects the entire node's resources: > For performance reasons, the backfill scheduler reserves whole nodes for jobs, not partial nodes. - https://slurm.schedmd.com/preempt.html#limitations However, that does specifically call out t

[slurm-users] Job preempts entire host instead of single job

Hi, I struggle with configuring job preempting. I have nodes with 8 Nvidia A100 GPUs. I have two partitions: short (lower priority) and sfglab (higher priority). I want to allow higher priority jobs to preempt (REQUEUE mode) lower priority job. It looks like it works, however it works too goo