[slurm-users] Slurm memory error in child process of a system() function call after malloc()

2019-01-08 Thread Péter Nagy
Dear Users, our FORTRAN based code uses shell operations via either the system() function or calling the corresponding system subroutine. This fails with Slurm in certain cases. For instance, input files are manipulated as istatus=system('cp file1 file2'). When using Slurm scheduler system() retu

Re: [slurm-users] [Slurm 18.08.4] sacct/seff Inaccurate usercpu on Job Arrays

2019-01-08 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
" Looking back through the mailing list, it seems that from 2015 onwards the recommendation from Danny was to use 'jobacct_gather/linux' instead of 'jobacct_gather/cgroup'. I didn't pick up on that properly, so we kept with the cgroup version." Ahh, hmm I need to dig up that recommenda

Re: [slurm-users] [Slurm 18.08.4] sacct/seff Inaccurate usercpu on Job Arrays

2019-01-08 Thread Paddy Doyle
A small addition: I forgot to mention our JobAcct params: JobAcctGatherFrequency=task=30 JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/cgroup I've done a small bit of playing around on a test cluster. Changing to 'JobAcctGatherFrequency=0' (i.e. only gather at job end) seems to then give correct values for th