"Loris Bennett" <[email protected]>
writes:

> Hi,
>
> We are using SLURM 2.2.7 and occasionally get a situation in which
> multiple tasks end up on a single core.
>
> In the following, a 15-task job is scheduled to 2 12-core nodes.  On one
> node I have 9 processes on 9 core:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+   P COMMAND
> 20094 loris     20   0  703m 119m  14m R 100.0  0.1 943:06.48  3 desmond
> 20086 loris     20   0  874m 162m  16m R 99.7  0.2 941:42.19 11 desmond
> 20087 loris     20   0  701m 114m  14m R 99.7  0.1 943:03.65  4 desmond
> 20088 loris     20   0  701m 114m  14m R 99.7  0.1 942:25.38  7 desmond
> 20090 loris     20   0  701m 115m  14m R 99.7  0.1 942:03.41  9 desmond
> 20092 loris     20   0  703m 116m  14m R 99.7  0.1 942:25.60  8 desmond
> 20093 loris     20   0  701m 115m  14m R 99.7  0.1 942:29.85  6 desmond
> 20089 loris     20   0  703m 116m  14m R 99.5  0.1 943:00.17  2 desmond
> 20091 loris     20   0  703m 116m  14m R 99.2  0.1 942:22.47 10 desmond
>
> On the other I have 6 processes on 1 core:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+   P COMMAND
> 60216 xxxxx     20   0 16.4g  15g  10m R 598.1 16.6  11094:58  5 molpro.exe
> 39963 loris     20   0  703m 119m  14m R 16.6  0.1 157:46.38  6 desmond
> 39964 loris     20   0  701m 114m  14m R 16.6  0.1 157:46.38  6 desmond
> 39965 loris     20   0  703m 117m  14m R 16.6  0.1 157:46.39  6 desmond
> 39961 loris     20   0  704m 119m  14m R 16.3  0.1 157:46.38  6 desmond
> 39962 loris     20   0  702m 115m  14m R 16.3  0.1 157:46.38  6 desmond
> 39966 loris     20   0  702m 115m  14m R 16.3  0.1 157:46.38  6 desmond
>
> On this second node there is also an OpenMP job running 6 threads on 6
> cores, so there are still 6 cores available for my job.  However, only
> one is used.
>
> Is this a known problem?  If so, has it been fixed in a more recent
> version of SLURM?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> --
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email [email protected]

No thoughts on this?  We are using the task/affinity plugin.

Loris 

-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email [email protected]

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