case, HOLDing PENDING jobs is redundant.)
>
> ~jonathon
>
>
> From: slurm-users on behalf of
> Lachlan Musicman
> Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:00:12 PM
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> Subject: [slurm-users] Quick hold on all partitions, all jobs
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run. (In either case, HOLDing
PENDING jobs is redundant.)
~jonathon
From: slurm-users on behalf of Lachlan
Musicman
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:00:12 PM
To: Slurm User Community List
Subject: [slurm-users] Quick hold on all partitions, all jobs
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On 09/11/17 11:00, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> I've just discovered that the partitions have a state, and it can be set
> to UP, DOWN, DRAIN or INACTIVE.
DRAIN the partitions to stop new jobs running, then you can work on how
you suspend running jobs (good luck with that!).
--
Christopher Samuel
We use something like this:
scontrol create reservation starttime=2017-11-08T06:00:00 duration=1440
user=root flags=maint,ignore_jobs nodes=ALL
Reservation
created: root_2
Then confirm:
scontrol show reservation
ReservationName=root_2 StartTime=2017-11-08T06:00:00
EndTime=2017-11-09T06:00:0
The IT team sent an email saying "complete network wide network outage
tomorrow night from 10pm across the whole institute".
Our plan is to put all queued jobs on hold, suspend all running jobs, and
turning off the login node.
I've just discovered that the partitions have a state, and it can be s
