Re: [slurm-users] Internet connection loss with srun to a node

Thanks. It turns out that not all program use $http_proxy in bashrc. For pip, which I had problem I had to use "pip --proxy http://somewhere install pkg". So, there is not problem with srun. Hope that it helps other too. Regards, Mahmood On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 7:28 PM Matthew BETTINGER < matt

[slurm-users] Correct way to give srun and sbatch different MaxTime values?

Hi, I'd like to prevent my Slurm users from taking up resources with dummy shell process jobs left unaware/intentionally. To that end, I simply want to put a tougher maximum time limit for srun only. One possible way might be to wrap the srun binary. But could someone tell me if there is any prope

[slurm-users] configure Slurm when disk quota exceeded

Is there a way for Slurm to detect when a user quota has been exceeded? We use XFS and when users are over the quota they will get a "Disk quota exceeded" message, e.g., when trying to scp or create a new file. However if they are not aware of this and try using a sbatch file, they don't receive an

[slurm-users] Debugging communication problems

Hi, I'm experiencing a connectivity problem and I'm out of ideas, why this is happening. I'm running a slurmctld on a multihomed host. (10.9.8.0/8) - master - (10.11.12.0/8) There is no routing between these two subnets. So far, all slurmds resided in the first subnet and worked fine. I added so

Re: [slurm-users] Correct way to give srun and sbatch different MaxTime values?

Untested, but you should be able to use a job_submit.lua file to detect if the job was started with srun or sbatch: * Check with (job_desc.script == nil or job_desc.script == '') * Adjust job_desc.time_limit accordingly Here, I just gave people a shell function "hpcshell", which automati