Re: [slurm-users] How to turn off core specialization?

2019-08-28 Thread Taras Shapovalov
Hi Dave, I can confirm that CoreSpecCount can not be reset to 0 once it is set >0 (at least for FastSchedule>0). As a workaround for this bug you can try to stop slurmctld, remove node_state file and start slurmctld again. Best regards, Taras On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:54 PM Guertin, David S. w

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm Feature Poll

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hi Paul, I submitted the poll - thanks! For bug #7609, while I'd be happier with a built in slurm solution, you may find that our jobscript archiver implementation would work nicely for you. It is very high-performing and has no effect on the scheduler, or db performance. The solution is a mu

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm statesave directory -- location and management

2019-08-28 Thread Paul Edmon
The save state location is where slurm stores its current information about jobs.  That location is the live data of the cluster and is what allows it to survive restarts of the slurmctld.  The slurmdbd is almost live information and is not used by the slurmctld for current job state.  Thus if

[slurm-users] Slurm statesave directory -- location and management

2019-08-28 Thread David Baker
Hello, I apologise that this email is a bit vague, however we are keen to understand the role of the Slurm "StateSave" location. I can see the value of the information in this location when, for example, we are upgrading Slurm and the database is temporarily down, however as I note above we are

Re: [slurm-users] Dependencies with singleton and after

2019-08-28 Thread Michael Di Domenico
just curious. if you leave out the singleton, do you get the behavior as expected? On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:42 AM Jarno van der Kolk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm still puzzled by the expected behaviour of the following: > $ sbatch --hold fakejob.sh > Submitted batch job 25909273 > $ sbatch --hold

[slurm-users] Slurm Feature Poll

2019-08-28 Thread Paul Edmon
We have several pending feature requests to SchedMD regarding different features we would like to see, as I am sure many other groups have.  We were curious if anyone else in the community is interested in these features and if your group would be interested in talking with us (Harvard FAS Rese