Hi Alois, On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 09:41:40AM +0200, Alois Schlögl wrote: > [remark: this might be a problem of systemd, I'm not sure whether this > is an issue of slurm or of systemd.] > > When upgrading from debian 9.10 to 9.11 [2], a configuration entry in > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/slurmd.service > got lost. > > In order to address an issue ("Cannot allocate memory" when running mpi > jobs under slurm, it is described in [1]) we had to add in > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/slurmd.service
This file is a symbolic link to /lib/systemd/system/slurmd.service that is managed by the package. > this entry > > [Service] > ... > LimitMEMLOCK=1000000000000 According to systemd documentation you need to add this entry to: /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service or inside a file under: /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service.d man systemd.unit(5) for details. Best regards, -- Gennaro Oliva