> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skouson, Gary B [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:48 AM
> To: slurm-dev
> Subject: [slurm-dev] RE: sshare and sacct
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> We did start with 0 usage on the accounts I'm looking at and we have the
> share set to not decay or reset.  For some user/account associations, we
> have identical usage between sacct and sshare.  For others, sshare shows
> significantly less usage than sacct info.  I'm not sure what caused the
> difference.

I can't think of a reason for the associations that show a discrepancy.  
Perhaps increasing the debug levels and adding Priority to your DebugFlags 
would shed light.

> I was hoping I could update the sshare info to match what sacct says, but
> I could only see how to reset share usage to 0 from the info I could find.

Resetting RawUsage to zero is all that is currently possible.  Support for 
non-zero values was never implemented.
Don
 
> -----
> Gary Skouson
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lipari, Don [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:47 AM
> To: slurm-dev
> Subject: [slurm-dev] RE: sshare and sacct
> 
> Gary,
> 
> The sacct command retrieves job and job step records from the slurmdb and
> reports the statistics for the requested job(s).
> 
> The sshare command provides the basis for the fair-scheduling component of
> the multi-factor plugin.  sshare lists the two components (shares and
> usage) which are used to calculate the fair share factor for each user and
> account.  By default, one of the slurm.conf parameters which affect this
> calculation (PriorityDecayHalfLife) is set to a 7 day decay.  That means
> that whatever raw usage appears in the sshare report, it is bound to be
> less over time (in the absence of any more running jobs).
> 
> So, it is not a surprise that there would be a discrepancy between the
> usages reported by sacct and sshare.  If you set PriorityDecayHalfLife to
> not decay (zero), and if you started with zero usage, the usage numbers of
> sacct and sreport should track until the PriorityUsageResetPeriod limit
> was reached.  At that point, the raw usage value would be reset to zero.
> 
> Don
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Skouson, Gary B [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 3:52 PM
> > To: slurm-dev
> > Subject: [slurm-dev] sshare and sacct
> >
> >
> > We started using sshare to enforce limits on usage, and it seems that
> > sshare is getting confused about actual usage.
> >
> > If I use sacct to check the usage for an account, I get different
> numbers
> > than sshare reports for the same account.
> >
> > Is there a way to "fix" sshare to reflect the usage found from sacct?
> >
> > I can see that I can reset the share usage to 0, but that's the only
> value
> > allowed at the moment.  Is there some other way to set the rawusage to
> fix
> > sshare to reflect reality?
> >
> > -----
> > Gary Skouson

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