[Mauiusers] Maui preemption delay

[Romaric David]

Hello,

I am setting up job preemption with maui (slurm beeing used as the RM) and I can't get it to
work.

I use the following config file.

In order to test the configuration :
- the normal user submits a job. maui decides to start this job.
- the user allowed to access the PREEMPTOR qos submits another job.

I'm quite surprised that maui needs several scheduling cycles find preemptible resources.
Indeed, the maui log reports :

05/29 10:30:12 INFO:     preemptible resources found.  (0 nodes/0 tasks)
05/29 10:30:43 INFO:     attribute 'PREEMPTEE' set for job 153
05/29 10:30:43 INFO:     attempting to locate preemptible resources
05/29 10:30:43 INFO:     preemptible resources found.  (0 nodes/0 tasks)
05/29 10:31:14 INFO:     attribute 'PREEMPTEE' set for job 153
05/29 10:31:14 INFO:     attempting to locate preemptible resources
05/29 10:31:14 INFO:     preemptible resources found.  (0 nodes/0 tasks)
05/29 10:31:45 INFO:     attribute 'PREEMPTEE' set for job 153
05/29 10:31:45 INFO:     attempting to locate preemptible resources
05/29 10:31:45 INFO:     preemptible resources found.  (0 nodes/0 tasks)
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     attribute 'PREEMPTEE' set for job 153
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     attempting to locate preemptible resources
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     new preemptible job 153 located on node xxxx (1 < 2)         <===== At last !!!!
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     node xxxx contains preemptible resources (P: 2)
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     preemptible job 153 located on node xxx
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     node xxxx contains preemptible resources (P: 2)
05/29 10:32:16 INFO:     preemptible resources found.  (2 nodes/4 tasks)

Why are 4 scheduling cycles needed ?

	Regards,
         Romaric
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