Well, the documentation is rather clear on this: "SuspendTime: Nodes becomes eligible for power saving mode after being idle or down for this number of seconds." A drained node is neither idle nor down in my mind.
Thanks, Florian ________________________________ From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> Sent: Thursday, 14 May 2020 15:34 To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> Subject: [External] Re: [slurm-users] Node suspend / Power saving - for *idle* nodes only? On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 13:10:04 +0000, Florian Zillner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with slurm's power saving feature and shutdown of "idle" > nodes works in general, also the power up works when "idle~" nodes are > requested. > So far so good, but slurm is also shutting down nodes that are not explicitly > "idle". Previously I drained a node to debug something on it and slurm shut > it down when the SuspendTimeout was reached. Perhaps you should have put that node in maint mode? - S
