Limit the number of running jobs in SLURM
I am queuing multiple jobs in SLURM. Can I limit the number of parallel running jobs in slurm?
Thanks in advance!
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I am queuing multiple jobs in SLURM. Can I limit the number of parallel running jobs in slurm?
Thanks in advance!
slurm
asked Mar 15 '17 at 14:19
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I am queuing multiple jobs in SLURM. Can I limit the number of parallel running jobs in slurm?
Thanks in advance!
slurm
asked Mar 15 '17 at 14:19
user1447257user1447257
6111824
I am queuing multiple jobs in SLURM. Can I limit the number of parallel running jobs in slurm?
Thanks in advance!
slurm
slurm
asked Mar 15 '17 at 14:19
user1447257user1447257
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asked Mar 15 '17 at 14:19
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If you are not the administrator, your can hold some jobs if you do not want them all to start at the same time, with scontrol hold <JOBID>, and you can delay the submission of some jobs with sbatch --begin=YYYY-MM-DD. Also, if it is a job array, you can limit the number of jobs in the array that are concurrently running with for instance --array=1:100%25 to have 100 jobs in the array but only 25 of them running.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
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when youholda job I guess you have to manuallyunholdit to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automaticallyunholdwhenever a running job ends ?
– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
@zwlayer yes you have tounholdthem. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.
– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
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According to the SLURM Resource Limits documentation, you can limit the total number of jobs that you can run for an association/qos with the MaxJobs parameter. As a reminder, an association is a combination of cluster, account, user name and (optional) partition name.
You should be able to do something similar to:
sacctmgr modify user <userid> account=<account_name> set MaxJobs=10
I found this presentation to be very helpful in case you have more questions.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
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I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
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According to SLURM documentation, --array=0-15%4 (- sign and not :) will limit the number of simultaneously running tasks from this job array to 4
I wrote test.sbatch:
#!/bin/bash
# test.sbatch
#
#SBATCH -J a
#SBATCH -p campus
#SBATCH -c 1
#SBATCH -o %A_%a.output
mkdir test${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID}
# sleep for up to 10 minutes to see them running in squeue and
# different times to check that the number of parallel jobs remain constant
RANGE=600; number=$RANDOM; let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "$number"
sleep $number
and run it with sbatch --array=1-15%4 test.sbatch
Jobs run as expected (always 4 in parallel) and just create directories and kept running for $number seconds.
Appreciate comments and suggestions.
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
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436
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If you are not the administrator, your can hold some jobs if you do not want them all to start at the same time, with scontrol hold <JOBID>, and you can delay the submission of some jobs with sbatch --begin=YYYY-MM-DD. Also, if it is a job array, you can limit the number of jobs in the array that are concurrently running with for instance --array=1:100%25 to have 100 jobs in the array but only 25 of them running.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
25.9k54762
when youholda job I guess you have to manuallyunholdit to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automaticallyunholdwhenever a running job ends ?
– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
@zwlayer yes you have tounholdthem. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.
– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
add a comment |
If you are not the administrator, your can hold some jobs if you do not want them all to start at the same time, with scontrol hold <JOBID>, and you can delay the submission of some jobs with sbatch --begin=YYYY-MM-DD. Also, if it is a job array, you can limit the number of jobs in the array that are concurrently running with for instance --array=1:100%25 to have 100 jobs in the array but only 25 of them running.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
25.9k54762
when youholda job I guess you have to manuallyunholdit to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automaticallyunholdwhenever a running job ends ?
– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
@zwlayer yes you have tounholdthem. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.
– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
add a comment |
If you are not the administrator, your can hold some jobs if you do not want them all to start at the same time, with scontrol hold <JOBID>, and you can delay the submission of some jobs with sbatch --begin=YYYY-MM-DD. Also, if it is a job array, you can limit the number of jobs in the array that are concurrently running with for instance --array=1:100%25 to have 100 jobs in the array but only 25 of them running.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
25.9k54762
If you are not the administrator, your can hold some jobs if you do not want them all to start at the same time, with scontrol hold <JOBID>, and you can delay the submission of some jobs with sbatch --begin=YYYY-MM-DD. Also, if it is a job array, you can limit the number of jobs in the array that are concurrently running with for instance --array=1:100%25 to have 100 jobs in the array but only 25 of them running.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
25.9k54762
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
25.9k54762
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
damienfrancoisdamienfrancois
25.9k54762
answered Mar 16 '17 at 8:53
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25.9k54762
when youholda job I guess you have to manuallyunholdit to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automaticallyunholdwhenever a running job ends ?
– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
@zwlayer yes you have tounholdthem. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.
– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
add a comment |
when youholda job I guess you have to manuallyunholdit to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automaticallyunholdwhenever a running job ends ?
– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
@zwlayer yes you have tounholdthem. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.
– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
when you
hold a job I guess you have to manually unhold it to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automatically unhold whenever a running job ends ?– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
when you
hold a job I guess you have to manually unhold it to allow it to run right ? Is it possible to make it automatically unhold whenever a running job ends ?– zwlayer
Apr 18 '18 at 10:13
@zwlayer yes you have to
unhold them. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
@zwlayer yes you have to
unhold them. You can put that at the end of your submission script, or write some script to monitor what is happening, but then I would suggest considering the use of a workflow management tool such as FireWorks for instance.– damienfrancois
Apr 18 '18 at 10:15
add a comment |
According to the SLURM Resource Limits documentation, you can limit the total number of jobs that you can run for an association/qos with the MaxJobs parameter. As a reminder, an association is a combination of cluster, account, user name and (optional) partition name.
You should be able to do something similar to:
sacctmgr modify user <userid> account=<account_name> set MaxJobs=10
I found this presentation to be very helpful in case you have more questions.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
1
I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
add a comment |
According to the SLURM Resource Limits documentation, you can limit the total number of jobs that you can run for an association/qos with the MaxJobs parameter. As a reminder, an association is a combination of cluster, account, user name and (optional) partition name.
You should be able to do something similar to:
sacctmgr modify user <userid> account=<account_name> set MaxJobs=10
I found this presentation to be very helpful in case you have more questions.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
1
I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
add a comment |
According to the SLURM Resource Limits documentation, you can limit the total number of jobs that you can run for an association/qos with the MaxJobs parameter. As a reminder, an association is a combination of cluster, account, user name and (optional) partition name.
You should be able to do something similar to:
sacctmgr modify user <userid> account=<account_name> set MaxJobs=10
I found this presentation to be very helpful in case you have more questions.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
According to the SLURM Resource Limits documentation, you can limit the total number of jobs that you can run for an association/qos with the MaxJobs parameter. As a reminder, an association is a combination of cluster, account, user name and (optional) partition name.
You should be able to do something similar to:
sacctmgr modify user <userid> account=<account_name> set MaxJobs=10
I found this presentation to be very helpful in case you have more questions.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
answered Mar 16 '17 at 1:00
AndresMAndresM
962515
962515
1
I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
add a comment |
1
I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
1
1
I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
I wanted to limit only the number of parallel jobs of a certain step as a user. This is globally.
– user1447257
Mar 16 '17 at 9:21
add a comment |
According to SLURM documentation, --array=0-15%4 (- sign and not :) will limit the number of simultaneously running tasks from this job array to 4
I wrote test.sbatch:
#!/bin/bash
# test.sbatch
#
#SBATCH -J a
#SBATCH -p campus
#SBATCH -c 1
#SBATCH -o %A_%a.output
mkdir test${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID}
# sleep for up to 10 minutes to see them running in squeue and
# different times to check that the number of parallel jobs remain constant
RANGE=600; number=$RANDOM; let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "$number"
sleep $number
and run it with sbatch --array=1-15%4 test.sbatch
Jobs run as expected (always 4 in parallel) and just create directories and kept running for $number seconds.
Appreciate comments and suggestions.
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
aerijmanaerijman
436
add a comment |
According to SLURM documentation, --array=0-15%4 (- sign and not :) will limit the number of simultaneously running tasks from this job array to 4
I wrote test.sbatch:
#!/bin/bash
# test.sbatch
#
#SBATCH -J a
#SBATCH -p campus
#SBATCH -c 1
#SBATCH -o %A_%a.output
mkdir test${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID}
# sleep for up to 10 minutes to see them running in squeue and
# different times to check that the number of parallel jobs remain constant
RANGE=600; number=$RANDOM; let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "$number"
sleep $number
and run it with sbatch --array=1-15%4 test.sbatch
Jobs run as expected (always 4 in parallel) and just create directories and kept running for $number seconds.
Appreciate comments and suggestions.
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
aerijmanaerijman
436
add a comment |
According to SLURM documentation, --array=0-15%4 (- sign and not :) will limit the number of simultaneously running tasks from this job array to 4
I wrote test.sbatch:
#!/bin/bash
# test.sbatch
#
#SBATCH -J a
#SBATCH -p campus
#SBATCH -c 1
#SBATCH -o %A_%a.output
mkdir test${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID}
# sleep for up to 10 minutes to see them running in squeue and
# different times to check that the number of parallel jobs remain constant
RANGE=600; number=$RANDOM; let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "$number"
sleep $number
and run it with sbatch --array=1-15%4 test.sbatch
Jobs run as expected (always 4 in parallel) and just create directories and kept running for $number seconds.
Appreciate comments and suggestions.
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
aerijmanaerijman
436
According to SLURM documentation, --array=0-15%4 (- sign and not :) will limit the number of simultaneously running tasks from this job array to 4
I wrote test.sbatch:
#!/bin/bash
# test.sbatch
#
#SBATCH -J a
#SBATCH -p campus
#SBATCH -c 1
#SBATCH -o %A_%a.output
mkdir test${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID}
# sleep for up to 10 minutes to see them running in squeue and
# different times to check that the number of parallel jobs remain constant
RANGE=600; number=$RANDOM; let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "$number"
sleep $number
and run it with sbatch --array=1-15%4 test.sbatch
Jobs run as expected (always 4 in parallel) and just create directories and kept running for $number seconds.
Appreciate comments and suggestions.
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
aerijmanaerijman
436
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
aerijmanaerijman
436
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
aerijmanaerijman
436
answered Jan 19 at 21:39
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