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You should use <code>--mem=128000M</code> rather than <code>--mem=128G</code> when requesting  whole nodes because a small tranche of memory is reserved to the operating system, and requesting precisely 128GB means the job cannot be scheduled on the plentiful 128GB nodes. The job will not be rejected by Slurm, it will just wait much longer to start than it needs to.
You should use <code>--mem=128000M</code> rather than <code>--mem=128G</code> when requesting  whole nodes because a small amount of memory is reserved to the operating system, and requesting precisely 128GB means the job cannot be scheduled on the plentiful 128GB nodes. The job will not be rejected by Slurm, it will just wait much longer to start than it needs to.


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