I’m not at a computer, and we run an older version of Slurm yet so I can’t say with 100% confidence that his this has changed and I can’t be too specific, but I know that this is the behavior you should expect from that command. I believe that there are configuration options to make it behave differently.
Otherwise, you can use srun to run commands on the assigned node. I think if you search this list for “interactive,” or search the Slurm bugs database, you will see some other conversations about this. Sent from my iPhone On May 19, 2023, at 10:35, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> wrote: I'm setting up Slurm from scratch for the first time ever. Using 22.05.8 since I haven't had a changed to upgrade our DB server to 23.02 yet. When I try to use salloc to get a shell on a compute node (ranger-s22-07), I end up with a shell on the login node (ranger): [pbisbal@ranger ~]$ salloc -n 1 -t 00:10:00 --mem=1G salloc: Granted job allocation 23 salloc: Waiting for resource configuration salloc: Nodes ranger-s22-07 are ready for job [pbisbal@ranger ~]$ Any ideas what's going wrong here? I have the following line in my slurm.conf: LaunchParameters=user_interactive_step When I run salloc with -vvvvv, here's what I see: [pbisbal@ranger ~]$ salloc -vvvvv -n 1 -t 00:10:00 --mem=1G salloc: defined options salloc: -------------------- -------------------- salloc: mem : 1G salloc: ntasks : 1 salloc: time : 00:10:00 salloc: verbose : 5 salloc: -------------------- -------------------- salloc: end of defined options salloc: debug3: Trying to load plugin /usr/lib64/slurm/select_cons_res.so salloc: debug3: plugin_load_from_file->_verify_syms: found Slurm plugin name:Consumable Resources (CR) Node Selection plugin type:select/cons_res version:0x160508 salloc: select/cons_res: common_init: select/cons_res loaded salloc: debug3: Success. salloc: debug3: Trying to load plugin /usr/lib64/slurm/select_cons_tres.so salloc: debug3: plugin_load_from_file->_verify_syms: found Slurm plugin name:Trackable RESources (TRES) Selection plugin type:select/cons_tres version:0x160508 salloc: select/cons_tres: common_init: select/cons_tres loaded salloc: debug3: Success. salloc: debug3: Trying to load plugin /usr/lib64/slurm/select_cray_aries.so salloc: debug3: plugin_load_from_file->_verify_syms: found Slurm plugin name:Cray/Aries node selection plugin type:select/cray_aries version:0x160508 salloc: select/cray_aries: init: Cray/Aries node selection plugin loaded salloc: debug3: Success. salloc: debug3: Trying to load plugin /usr/lib64/slurm/select_linear.so salloc: debug3: plugin_load_from_file->_verify_syms: found Slurm plugin name:Linear node selection plugin type:select/linear version:0x160508 salloc: select/linear: init: Linear node selection plugin loaded with argument 20 salloc: debug3: Success. salloc: debug: Entering slurm_allocation_msg_thr_create() salloc: debug: port from net_stream_listen is 43881 salloc: debug: Entering _msg_thr_internal salloc: debug4: eio: handling events for 1 objects salloc: debug3: eio_message_socket_readable: shutdown 0 fd 6 salloc: debug3: Trying to load plugin /usr/lib64/slurm/auth_munge.so salloc: debug3: plugin_load_from_file->_verify_syms: found Slurm plugin name:Munge authentication plugin type:auth/munge version:0x160508 salloc: debug: auth/munge: init: Munge authentication plugin loaded salloc: debug3: Success. salloc: debug3: Trying to load plugin /usr/lib64/slurm/hash_k12.so salloc: debug3: plugin_load_from_file->_verify_syms: found Slurm plugin name:KangarooTwelve hash plugin type:hash/k12 version:0x160508 salloc: debug: hash/k12: init: init: KangarooTwelve hash plugin loaded salloc: debug3: Success. salloc: Granted job allocation 24 salloc: Waiting for resource configuration salloc: Nodes ranger-s22-07 are ready for job salloc: debug: laying out the 1 tasks on 1 hosts ranger-s22-07 dist 8192 [pbisbal@ranger ~]$ This is all I see in /var/log/slurm/slurmd.log on the compute node: [2023-05-19T10:21:36.898] [24.extern] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: job: alloc=1024MB mem.limit=1024MB memsw.limit=unlimited [2023-05-19T10:21:36.899] [24.extern] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: step: alloc=1024MB mem.limit=1024MB memsw.limit=unlimited And this is all I see in /var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log on the controller: [2023-05-19T10:18:16.815] sched: _slurm_rpc_allocate_resources JobId=23 NodeList=ranger-s22-07 usec=1136 [2023-05-19T10:18:22.423] Time limit exhausted for JobId=22 [2023-05-19T10:21:36.861] sched: _slurm_rpc_allocate_resources JobId=24 NodeList=ranger-s22-07 usec=1039 Here's my slurm.conf file: # grep -v ^# /etc/slurm/slurm.conf | grep -v ^$ ClusterName=ranger SlurmctldHost=ranger-master EnforcePartLimits=ALL JobSubmitPlugins=lua,require_timelimit LaunchParameters=user_interactive_step MaxStepCount=2500 MaxTasksPerNode=32 MpiDefault=none ProctrackType=proctrack/cgroup PrologFlags=contain ReturnToService=0 SlurmctldPidFile=/var/run/slurmctld.pid SlurmctldPort=6817 SlurmdPidFile=/var/run/slurmd.pid SlurmdPort=6818 SlurmdSpoolDir=/var/spool/slurmd SlurmUser=slurm StateSaveLocation=/var/spool/slurmctld SwitchType=switch/none TaskPlugin=task/affinity,task/cgroup TopologyPlugin=topology/tree CompleteWait=32 InactiveLimit=0 KillWait=30 MinJobAge=300 SlurmctldTimeout=120 SlurmdTimeout=300 Waittime=0| DefMemPerCPU=5000 SchedulerType=sched/backfill SelectType=select/cons_tres SelectTypeParameters=CR_Core_Memory PriorityType=priority/multifactor PriorityDecayHalfLife=15-0 PriorityCalcPeriod=15 PriorityFavorSmall=NO PriorityMaxAge=180-0 PriorityWeightAge=5000 PriorityWeightFairshare=5000 PriorityWeightJobSize=5000 AccountingStorageEnforce=all AccountingStorageHost=slurm.pppl.gov AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd AccountingStoreFlags=job_script JobCompType=jobcomp/none JobAcctGatherFrequency=30 JobAcctGatherParams=UsePss JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/cgroup SlurmctldDebug=info SlurmctldLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log SlurmdDebug=info SlurmdLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmd.log NodeName=ranger-s22-07 CPUs=72 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=4 CoresPerSocket=18 ThreadsPerCore=1 RealMemory=384880 State=UNKNOWN PartitionName=all Nodes=ALL Default=YES GraceTime=300 MaxTime=24:00:00 State=UP -- Prentice
