I’m not 100% certain that this affects this situation, but there’s a slurm.conf setting called EnforcePartLimits that you might want to change.
-- #BlackLivesMatter ____ || \\UTGERS, |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, Newark `' > On Feb 8, 2022, at 5:26 PM, z1...@arcor.de wrote: > > > Dear all, > > sbatch jobs are immediately rejected if no suitable node is available in > the configuration. > > > sbatch: error: Memory specification can not be satisfied > sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Requested node configuration > is not available > > These jobs should be accepted, if a suitable node will be active soon. > For example, these jobs could be in PartitionConfig. > > Is that configurable? > > > Many thanks, > > Mike >