Hi Satra, Have a look at PriorityFavorSmall (in slurm.conf). It may fit your needs. Not used it myself, so I'm not able to say if it'll do exactly what you're after.
--- Samuel Gallop From: slurm-users [mailto:slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com] On Behalf Of Satrajit Ghosh Sent: 22 November 2017 16:54 To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com Subject: [slurm-users] giving smaller jobs higher priority slurm has a way of giving larger jobs more priority. is it possible to do the reverse? i.e., is there a way to configure priority to give smaller jobs (use less resources) higher priority than bigger ones? cheers, satra resources: can be a weighted combination depending on system resources available: w1*core + w2*memory + w3*time + w4*gpu where core, memory, time, gpu are those requested by the job, and w1-4 are determined by system resources/group allocations.
