Still have this question. Sometime we have free nodes and users that are
allowed to run in the MAGNETIC reservation are first scheduled on the
free nodes instead of reservation nodes. Dit I forgot an option or is
this the expected behavior?
On 25/09/2020 16:47, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
Are people using the MAGNETIC reservation flag? My question would be how?
because to my it would be more useful if the reservation is tried first and
then the free nodes.
That is what I expected with the MAGNETIC flag.
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On 24 Sep 2020, at 12:16, Bas van der Vlies <bas.vandervl...@surf.nl> wrote:
We have installed slurm 20.02.5 and I am trying to use this new reservation flag
MAGNETIC:
* https://slurm.schedmd.com/reservations.html
From this page I understand that the job will land in the reservation even if
we
did not specify the
reservation name. I tested it on our cluster setup but it does not seems to
work as expected
I create a reservation for 1 node for user bas with flag magnetic. I submit a
job and to my surprise the job is scheduled on a free node and not on the node
in the reservation. It is only scheduled in the reservation if all nodes are
occupied. Is this the default behaviour or did a miss a setting?
I have set all available nodes offline except the reservation node and then I
see this:
```
bas@batch2:~/src$ srun -N1 --pty /bin/bash
srun: Required node not available (down, drained or reserved)
srun: job 1713 queued and waiting for resources
srun: job 1713 has been allocated resources
```
From this I see that the "magentic" reservation is considered as last.
regards
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