Thanks... looks like the bug should get some attention now that a paying site is complaining:
https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6332 Thanks Jurij! Best, Chris — Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167 On 1/9/19, 7:24 AM, "slurm-users on behalf of Paddy Doyle" <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com on behalf of pa...@tchpc.tcd.ie> wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 12:44:03PM +0100, Bj?rn-Helge Mevik wrote: > Paddy Doyle <pa...@tchpc.tcd.ie> writes: > > > Looking back through the mailing list, it seems that from 2015 onwards the > > recommendation from Danny was to use 'jobacct_gather/linux' instead of > > 'jobacct_gather/cgroup'. I didn't pick up on that properly, so we kept with > > the cgroup version. > > > > Is anyone else still using jobacct_gather/cgroup and are you seeing this > > same issue? > > Just a side note: In last year's SLUG, Tim recommended the following > settings: > > proctrack/cgroup, task/cgroup, jobacct_gather/cgroup > > So the recommendation for jobacct_gather might have changed -- or Danny > and Tim might just have different opinions. :) Interesting... the cgroups documentation page still says the performance of jobacct_gather/cgroup is worse than jobacct_gather/linux. Although according to the git commits of doc/html/cgroups.shtml, that was added to the page in Jan 2015, so yeah maybe things have changed again. :) https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslurm.schedmd.com%2Fcgroups.html&data=02%7C01%7Cchris.coffey%40nau.edu%7C2e47d9c9330646a8245f08d6763e2346%7C27d49e9f89e14aa099a3d35b57b2ba03%7C0%7C0%7C636826406595983378&sdata=i634oCV0NeO6DvBos05gM3iF7YxI%2FJC%2BZC7MJ222SW8%3D&reserved=0 In that case, either set 'JobAcctGatherFrequency=task=0' or wait for the bug to be fixed. Paddy -- Paddy Doyle Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Phone: +353-1-896-3725 https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tchpc.tcd.ie%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cchris.coffey%40nau.edu%7C2e47d9c9330646a8245f08d6763e2346%7C27d49e9f89e14aa099a3d35b57b2ba03%7C0%7C0%7C636826406595983378&sdata=S2PCubxVUifigrvyEnmFdrQb5G9Ak4roM2FJtUxiM%2Fw%3D&reserved=0
