It seems that the number of threads has some effects on the performance. Maybe some configurations issue exists in openmpi. I will investigate more on that. Thanks guys for the tips.
Regards, Mahmood On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> wrote: > I would likely crank up the debugging on the slurmd process and look at the > log files to see what’s going on in that time. You could also watch the job > via top or other means (on Linux, you can press “1” to see line-by-line for > each CPU core), or use strace on the process itself. Presumably something is > happening that’s either eating up 4 minutes, or the job is running 4 minutes > more slowly and you’ll need to figure out why. I know that our jobs run via > the scheduler perform about on par for the hardware, and that jobs start > fairly immediately.