Hi Andy, On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:43 AM, Andy Riebs <andy.ri...@hpe.com> wrote: > I hadn't realized that jobs can be scheduled to run on a node that is still > in "completing" state from an earlier job. We occasionally use epilog > scripts that can take 30 seconds or longer, and we really don't want the > next job to start until the epilog scripts have completed. > > Other than coding a little loop to wait until the desired nodes are "idle" > before scheduling a job, is there an automated way to say "don't start a job > on a node until it reaches 'idle' status?"
I'd recommend taking a look at the following options in slurm.conf: * CompleteWait, * reduce_completing_frag (in SchedulerParams). Cheers, -- Kilian
