I have found out the reason here... I did not know that Slurm would read PBS directives!
I was uging a PBS script as an example, and had left the original PBS directives at the end of the script, following an exit statement #PBS -N OpenFoam #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=16 #PBS -l walltime=01:00:00 #PBS -A ds004 The job ran with account dc004 and used that walltime! You learn something new every day -----Original Message----- From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hea...@xma.co.uk] Sent: 24 May 2016 07:26 To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> Subject: [slurm-dev] Time limit on compute nodes? Last night I was running an Openfoam job which failed with a message about a time limit on comp13: Time = 23.2 DILUPBiCG: Solving for Ux, Initial residual = 0.00934715, Final residual = 3.76516e-05, No Iterations 3 DILUPBiCG: Solving for Uy, Initial residual = 0.00214164, Final residual = 2.31061e-06, No Iterations 4 DILUPBiCG: Solving for Uz, Initial residual = 0.00777681, Final residual = 6.03314e-05, No Iterations 3 DILUPBiCG: Solving for e, Initial residual = 0.00417167, Final residual = 1.34667e-05, No Iterations 3 slurmstepd: *** JOB 313 CANCELLED AT 2016-05-23T19:08:44 DUE TO TIME LIMIT on comp13 *** However as far as I can see there is no limit on the partition it ran in: PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST defq* up infinite 7 idle comp[05,07-08,13-16] Have I managed to set a time limit on comp13 somehow? The job submission script has not time limit that I see. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Employees of XMA Ltd are expressly required not to make defamatory statements and not to infringe or authorise any infringement of copyright or any other legal right by email communications. Any such communication is contrary to company policy and outside the scope of the employment of the individual concerned. The company will not accept any liability in respect of such communication, and the employee responsible will be personally liable for any damages or other liability arising. XMA Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered no. 2051703). Registered Office: Wilford Industrial Estate, Ruddington Lane, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7EP Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Employees of XMA Ltd are expressly required not to make defamatory statements and not to infringe or authorise any infringement of copyright or any other legal right by email communications. Any such communication is contrary to company policy and outside the scope of the employment of the individual concerned. The company will not accept any liability in respect of such communication, and the employee responsible will be personally liable for any damages or other liability arising. XMA Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered no. 2051703). Registered Office: Wilford Industrial Estate, Ruddington Lane, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7EP
