[slurm-users] powersave: excluding nodes

[Davide DelVento]

Following the example from https://slurm.schedmd.com/power_save.html regarding SuspendExcNodes

I configured my slurm.conf with

SuspendExcNodes=node[01-12]:2,node[13-32]:2,node[33-34]:1,nodegpu[01-02]:1
SuspendExcStates=down,drain,fail,maint,not_responding,reserved
#SuspendExcParts= 

(the nodes in the different groups have different amounts of physical memory).

Unfortunately, it seems to me that slurm does not honor such a setting and excludes only the two nodes from one group, but shuts off everything else. Is there another setting which may inadvertently cause this problem, or that's a known bug?

Thanks!

[Davide DelVento]

Forgot to mention: this is with slurm 23.02.6 (apologize for the double message)

[Davide DelVento]

Could it be a similar problem as the one in the "SlurmcltdHost confusion" thread which (if you weren’t paying attention) the comma-separated syntax doesn’t work, but repeating the thing on multiple lines achieved what that person intended?

On the other hand, for AccountingStoreFlags the other thing was true: I had two lines one specifying job_script and the other job_comment and only the last one was honored until I noticed and consolidated them in one line, comma-separating the arguments...