Hello all,

The Slurm docs have me a bit confused... I'm wanting to enable job
preemption on certain partitions but not others. I *presume* I would
set PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio globally, but then on the partitions
where I don't want jobs to be able to be preempted, I would set
PreemptMode=off within the configuration for that specific partition.

The documentation, however, says that setting PreemptMode=off at a
partition level "is only compatible with PreemptType=preempt/none at a
global level" yet then immediately says that doing so is a "common use case
for this parameter is to set it on a partition to disable preemption for
that partition," which indicates preemption would still be allowable for
other partitions.

If PreemptType is set to preempt/none globally, and I *cannot* set that as
an option for a given partition (at least, the documentation doesn't
indicate that is a valid parameter for a partition), wouldn't preemption be
disabled globally anyway? The wording seems odd to me and almost
contradictory.

Is it possible to have PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio set globally, yet
also disable it on specific partitions with PreemptMode=off? Is PreemptType
actually a valid configuration option for specific partitions?

Thanks for any guidance.

Warmest regards,
Jason

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