[slurm-users] Preventing --exclusive on a per-partition basis

[Russell Jones]

Hi all,

We are running into the documented issues of job preemption not working for jobs running in a lower priority queue, but the user used --exclusive=user in the job submission.

I have found the example job_submit.lua file for preventing using this flag, but I don't want to prevent it on every partition - only certain ones.

How can I go about doing that?

[Bjørn-Helge Mevik]

I'd simply add a test like
and job_desc.partition == "the_partition"
to the test for exclusiveness.

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Regards,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo

[Russell Jones]

Thank you! Yes I ended up doing exactly that after finding the job submit API docs.