OK - no need to respond - saw the flag_static_alloc in slurm ver 2.4.1 - will switch over to this newer rev.....
-- Yuval Leader Design Automation Engineer, Mellanox Technologies mailto: [email protected] Tel: +972-74-7236360 Fax: +972-4-9593245 Beit Mellanox. 6th Floor,R-620 P.O.Box 586, Yokneam Industrial Park, 20692 Israel -----Original Message----- From: Yuval Leader Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:35 PM To: 'slurm-dev' Subject: RE: [slurm-dev] Re: If node state is DOWN it is replaced in an exisiting reservation - can the replacement be disabled ? I am using slurm 2.3.5 with scontrol man page for July 2011. Should I be using a newer version ? which ? In the July2011 scontrol man page, I cannot find: flags=static_alloc For: > scontrol -V slurm 2.3.5 All I have for: > man scontrol <...snip...> Flags=<flags> Flags associated with the reservation. In order to remove a flag with the update option, precede the name with a minus sign. For example: Flags=-DAILY (NOTE: this option is not supported for all flags). Currently supported flags include: LICENSE_ONLY... MAINT Maintenance mode, receives special accounting treatment. This partition... OVERLAP This reservation can be allocated resources that are already in another... IGNORE_JOBS Ignore currently running jobs when creating the reservation. This can... DAILY Repeat the reservation at the same time every day... WEEKLY Repeat the reservation at the same time every week... SPEC_NODES Reservation is for specific nodes (output only)... scontrol 2.3 July 2011 SCONTROL(1) -- Yuval Leader Design Automation Engineer, Mellanox Technologies mailto: [email protected] Tel: +972-74-7236360 Fax: +972-4-9593245 Beit Mellanox. 6th Floor,R-620 P.O.Box 586, Yokneam Industrial Park, 20692 Israel -----Original Message----- From: Moe Jette [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:14 PM To: slurm-dev Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: If node state is DOWN it is replaced in an exisiting reservation - can the replacement be disabled ? See "flags=static_alloc" description in the scontrol man page section describing reservation creation. That will prevent substitution of replacement nodes. Quoting Yuval Leader <[email protected]>: > I see the following behavior: > > If a node is already in an existing reservation, it is automatically > replaced by another available node (if exists) if the reserved node > state is changed to DOWN or DRAINED. > > The logfile will show something like this: > [2012-07-15T11:43:40] update_node: node 12200FixedEdge state set to > DRAINED [2012-07-15T11:44:01] modified reservation miked_120 due to > unusable nodes, new nodes: 6600-24XGJ9265A > > My question is if this behavior can be modified – can this automatic > replacement be disabled ? > > > -- > Yuval Leader >
