On 3/3/24 23:04, John Joseph via slurm-users wrote:
Is SWAP a mandatory requirement
All our compute nodes are diskless, so no swap on them.
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Joseph,
You will likely get many perspectives on this. I disable swap completely
on our compute nodes. I can be draconian that way. For the workflow
supported, this works and is a good thing.
Other workflows may benefit from swap.
Brian Andrus
On 3/3/2024 11:04 PM, John Joseph via slurm-user
It depends on a number of factors.
How do your workloads behave? Do they do a lot of fork()? I’ve had cases in
the past where users submitted scripts which initially used quite a lot of
memory and then used fork() or system() to execute subprocesses. This of
course means that temporarily (be
