Re: [slurm-users] [EXT] Weird issues with slurm's Priority

2020-07-08 Thread zaxs84
> > Can you see if it is set? Using (e.g. scontrol show job 337475 or sacct -j > 337475 -o Timelimit) > At the moment my users don't set the TimeLimit, because they don't know how long their jobs will take. If I check with sacct -o TimeLimit, I get : Timelimit -- 365-00:00+ Is not setti

Re: [slurm-users] [EXT] Weird issues with slurm's Priority

2020-07-08 Thread Sean Crosby
To disable the backfill scheduler, add/change SchedulerType=sched/builtin in your slurm.conf, and restart your slurmctld. The default SchedulerType is sched/backfill In terms of it is bad that you don't specify the Timelimit for jobs accurately, disabling backfill scheduler (and not specifying t

[slurm-users] Advice for merging accounting data

2020-07-08 Thread Simon Kainz
Hello, we have a long-running slurm cluster, accounting into slurmdbd/mysql backend on the cluster master. We recently installed a new system, now with a dedicated, separate logging host, also with mysql backend. How could i, preferably without losing accounting data, move the logging informatio

Re: [slurm-users] Allow certain users to run over partition limit

2020-07-08 Thread Matthew BETTINGER
Ok I see the resource hierarchy limits : Partition QOS limit Job QOS limit User association Account association(s), ascending the hierarchy Root/Cluster association Partition limit None Where in this list does the reservations fall under? Do reservations override all of these if they are set to

Re: [slurm-users] Advice for merging accounting data

2020-07-08 Thread Brian Andrus
If you want everything good, you will want to dump/import before starting to use the new database. If they are the same versions of mysql/mariadb, I would merely rsync the database folders over and then start the db. One potential gotcha is the jobid starting over/being different. Make sure

Re: [slurm-users] Allow certain users to run over partition limit

2020-07-08 Thread Sebastian T Smith
Re-reading your question, I don't think reservations are applicable to your problem. Reservations are used to isolate resources for an amount of time for a group of users -- not the job scheduling policies tied to the resources. You can allocate a number of dedicated resources for a long durat

Re: [slurm-users] Advice for merging accounting data

2020-07-08 Thread Rodrigo Santibáñez
There is no problem with duplicated JobIDs. from https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html *-D**,* *--duplicates* If Slurm job ids are reset, some job numbers will probably appear more than once in the accounting log file but refer to different jobs. Such jobs can be distinguished by the "submit" time

[slurm-users] changes in slurm.

2020-07-08 Thread navin srivastava
Hi Team, i have 2 small query.because of the lack of testing environment i am unable to test the scenario. working on to set up a test environment. 1. In my environment i am unable to pass #SBATCH --mem-2GB option. i found the reason is because there is no RealMemory entry in the node definition