Maybe you can create a partition/qos for interactive jobs and use job_submit plugin to force all interactive jobs to use it?
cheers, Marcin 2016-08-30 8:09 GMT+02:00 John Hearns <john.hea...@xma.co.uk>: > I worked on the same problem in my last job, where engineers had > interactive sessions used for post simulation analysis and visualization. > Only this was using PBSPro. > As I recall, the engineers did not directly run the command to start an > interactive session so we just started those interactive jobs in a queue > with limits. > > You could use a "wrapper script" maybe for your interactive sessions? That > does not stop inventive users from figuring out what limits the wrapper > script sets though. > > There are also idle timeouts for bash and C-shells which I used. > On the compute nodes you can edit the /etc/profile scripts for bash and C, > and put it a bit of logic. On a PBS job there are environment variables > set, so you can > say IF $PBS_INTERACTIVE THEN set timeout > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* T Friddy [t.friddy...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 29 August 2016 21:19 > *To:* slurm-dev > *Subject:* [slurm-dev] Combating idle interactive sessions > > Hi All, > > I'm having an issue with idle interactive sessions taking up resources for > many hours. I was hoping I could restrict all interactive sessions to a > single partition and then lower the time limit on that partition, but I > haven't been able to find anything about partition specification pertaining > to job type. Is it possible to do this? If not, is there another way to > control such a scenario other than trusting users not to leave idle > terminals open? > > Thanks > 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 >
