Error with --exclusive option

[MahmAbdelwahab]

Hello everyone,

When using sourceSlurm or slurmr via command line, and the R file contain the following sbatch directives

#!/bin/sh
#SBATCH --job-name=simRMD
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=10G
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --exclusive

it returns the following error:
sbatch: error: Invalid --exclusive specification
Return code (status): 255

looking at the generated .sh file I see that slurmr appends the following : #SBATCH --exclusive=--exclusive
is that behaviour expected ?

Best,

Mahmoud

[gvegayon]

Interesting! Can you provide a little bit more of detail? Could you share the created batch file?

[MahmAbdelwahab]

Sure,
hers's the header in the .R file

#!/bin/sh
#SBATCH --job-name=Exclusive_Test
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=5G
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=2
#SBATCH --time=2-00:00:00
#SBATCH --exclusive

the outputed .sh file fails and the content:

#!/bin/sh
#SBATCH --job-name=Exclusive_Test
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=5G
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=2
#SBATCH --time=2-00:00:00
#SBATCH --exclusive=--exclusive
.../Rscript --vanilla *.R