Re: [slurm-users] Slurm statesave directory -- location and management

2019-08-28 Thread Paul Edmon
The save state location is where slurm stores its current information about jobs.  That location is the live data of the cluster and is what allows it to survive restarts of the slurmctld.  The slurmdbd is almost live information and is not used by the slurmctld for current job state.  Thus if

[slurm-users] Slurm statesave directory -- location and management

2019-08-28 Thread David Baker
Hello, I apologise that this email is a bit vague, however we are keen to understand the role of the Slurm "StateSave" location. I can see the value of the information in this location when, for example, we are upgrading Slurm and the database is temporarily down, however as I note above we are