oh you made me feel like a solution was here until I read "but unfortunately, that doesn't work either".
Ok. Thanks Jackie On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Eckert, Phil <ecke...@llnl.gov> wrote: > Jackie, > > it looks like in 2.5.7, according to the scontrol man page, the correct > syntax would be: > > scontrol create reservation flags=PART_NODES,IGNORE_JOBS nodes=ALL > starttime=now endtime=tomorrow partitionname=pbatch user=eckert > > but unfortunately, that doesn't work either. > > Phil > > > From: Jacqueline Scoggins <jscogg...@lbl.gov> > Reply-To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> > Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:29 PM > > To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> > Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: Admin reservation on busy nodes > > Here is my problem Phil, > > My node name is not like n00[00-91] instead we have a suffix added to > our hostname like n0000.jackie0. Since we have multiple n0000 nodes we had > to add the cluster they were associated to on the FQDN. And when I tried > nodes='n00[00-91].jackie0' I got a message that the name of the names were > not valid. So I tried only the partition and it still did not wok. > > Thanks > > Jackie > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Eckert, Phil <ecke...@llnl.gov> wrote: > >> Jackie, >> >> I was trying this with an earlier version of SLURM, I just build a >> 2.5.7 test system and tried it again, and I am seeing the same failures >> that you do when any of the nodes in the partition are allocated. A >> workaround is to use the "nodes=" option, ie: >> >> scontrol create reservation flags=ignore_jobs nodes="tnodes[32-591]" >> starttime=now endtime=tomorrow partition=pbatch user=eckert >> >> Phil Eckert >> LLNL >> >> From: Jacqueline Scoggins <jscogg...@lbl.gov> >> Reply-To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> >> Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:58 AM >> >> To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> >> Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: Admin reservation on busy nodes >> >> I also believe I tried that one as well as the other two and each time >> I got Nodes busy message. If the nodes are in alloc state will either of >> these flags work? From what I saw they would not work in this case. >> >> Jackie >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Eckert, Phil <ecke...@llnl.gov> wrote: >> >>> I see the nodes busy message only if I am trying to create a >>> reservation on top of another reservation that includes the same nodes. You >>> might try adding the overlap flag if this is the case. >>> >>> Phil Eckert >>> LLNL >>> >>> From: Jacqueline Scoggins <jscogg...@lbl.gov> >>> Reply-To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> >>> Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:27 AM >>> To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> >>> Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: Admin reservation on busy nodes >>> >>> I tried that and it stated that the nodes were busy. >>> >>> Jackie >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Paul Edmon <ped...@cfa.harvard.edu>wrote: >>> >>>> Include the ignore_jobs flag. That will force the reservation. >>>> >>>> -Paul Edmon- >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/12/2013 12:11 PM, Jacqueline Scoggins wrote: >>>> >>>> Running slurm 2.5.7 and tried to reserve the nodes of the cluster >>>> because of hardware issues that needed to be repaired. Some of the nodes >>>> were allocated with jobs and others were not. Tried to do the following but >>>> got an error that the Nodes were busy and the reservation was not set. >>>> >>>> scontrol create reservation flags=ignore_jobs,maint starttime=now >>>> endtime=yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm >>>> partition=blah >>>> >>>> It would not work. >>>> >>>> Is there a way of setting system reservations on a partition even if >>>> there running jobs allocated to nodes? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Jackie >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
