Thank you for your help Chris! sacctmgr list config | fgrep Purge
PurgeEventAfter = 11 days PurgeJobAfter = 61 days PurgeResvAfter = 11 days PurgeStepAfter = 11 days PurgeSuspendAfter = 11 days [2017-10-18T09:04:52.098] slurmdbd version 15.08.3 started [2017-10-18T09:05:22.171] Warning: Note very large processing time from hourly_rollup for slurmhpc: usec=30071763 began=09:04:52.099 [2017-10-18T09:21:37.246] Warning: Note very large processing time from daily_rollup for slurmhpc: usec=975074694 began=09:05:22.171 [2017-10-18T09:21:37.388] error: No known unit given for purge, we are guessing mistake and returning error [2017-10-18T09:21:37.388] error: Parsing purge job [2017-10-18T09:21:37.388] error: Processing last message from connection 9(192.168.n.n) uid(0) [2017-10-18T09:21:37.388] error: Connection 9 experienced an error [2017-10-18T09:21:37.579] error: Invalid msg_size (990232576) from connection 7(192.168.n.n) uid(99) [2017-10-18T09:21:37.622] DBD_CLUSTER_TRES: cluster not registered Doug Meyer RMS IT HPC 520.665.5883 C: 520.481.7896 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Samuel [mailto:sam...@unimelb.edu.au] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:49 PM To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> Subject: [External] [slurm-dev] Re: mysql job_table and step_table growth On 19/10/17 05:24, Douglas Meyer wrote: > We have job_table purge set for 61 days and step_table for 11. Seems > to have no impact. So you have this in slurmdbd.conf? PurgeJobAfter=61days PurgeStepAfter=11days Anything in the logs when you start up slurmdbd? What does this say? sacctmgr list config | fgrep Purge cheer, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545