Hi Marcus, Marcus Wagner <wag...@itc.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> Hello, everyone. > > I'm also fairly new to slurm, still in a conceptual rather than a test or > productive phase. Currently I am still trying to find out where to create > which > files and directories, on the host or in a network directory. > I'm a little confused about the description in the manpage of slurm. conf. > For example, the JobCheckpointDir should be accessible from both the primary > and > backup controller. Now it is clear (at least I believe) that this has to be > done > in the NCCR, for example. If the primary controller goes down, the backup > controller must be able to access it. > On the other hand, SlurmctldPidFile should also be available on both the > primary > and backup controller. Since there is usually in /var/run, I assume that this > should be a local path. It should also be unique on every controller. > The manpage is not quite clear in its description. Your understanding is correct. > What about the SlurmctldLogFile, for example? Theoretically, both > could write to the same file. We have everything local except for the config files and the statesave location. > If anyone has an advice or would like to tell me how it was solved on your > site, > I would be very happy. > > > best > Marcus Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
