Hi Uwe, Looks like you are missing an "s" at the end of the name. We have:
SchedulerParameters=max_switch_wait=864000,... Regards, Carles Fenoy Barcelona Supercomputing Center On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Uwe Sauter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to configure the scheduling parameter "max_switch_wait" on > 14.03.8 but > > a) there seems to be a mismatch between the html documentation and the > salloc/sbatch/srun man pages. > > b) Slurm doesn't seem to know the parameters referenced in the > documentation. > > > Regarding a) > > Manpages salloc/sbatch/srun reference a parameter called > "SchedulerParameters": > > --switches=<count>[@<max-time>] > When a tree topology is used, this defines the maximum count of > switches desired for the job allocation and optionally the maximum > time to wait for that number of switches. If SLURM finds an > allocation containing more switches than the count specified, the job > remains pending until it either finds an allocation with desired > switch count or the time limit expires. It there is no switch count > limit, there is no delay in starting the job. Acceptable time formats > include "minutes", "minutes:seconds", "hours:minutes:seconds", "days- > hours", "days-hours:minutes" and "days-hours:minutes:seconds". The > job’s maximum time delay may be limited by the system administrator > using the SchedulerParameters configuration parameter with the > max_switch_wait parameter option. The default max-time is the > max_switch_wait SchedulerParameter. > > while http://slurm.schedmd.com/sched_config.html calls this parameter > "SchedulingParameters" > > Regarding b) > > Trying both variants I cannot get Slurm started: > > ##### with SchedulerParameter #### > [root@controller etc]# service slurm restart > scontrol: error: Parsing error at unrecognized key: SchedulerParameter > scontrol: error: Parse error in file > /opt/system/slurm/14.03.8/etc/slurm.conf line 103: > "SchedulerParameter=max_switch_wait=86400" > scontrol: fatal: Unable to process configuration file > scontrol: error: Parsing error at unrecognized key: SchedulerParameter > scontrol: error: Parse error in file > /opt/system/slurm/14.03.8/etc/slurm.conf line 103: > "SchedulerParameter=max_switch_wait=86400" > scontrol: fatal: Unable to process configuration file > > ##### with SchedulingParameter #### > [root@controller etc]# service slurm restart > scontrol: error: Parsing error at unrecognized key: SchedulingParameter > scontrol: error: Parse error in file > /opt/system/slurm/14.03.8/etc/slurm.conf line 103: > "SchedulingParameter=max_switch_wait=86400" > scontrol: fatal: Unable to process configuration file > scontrol: error: Parsing error at unrecognized key: SchedulingParameter > scontrol: error: Parse error in file > /opt/system/slurm/14.03.8/etc/slurm.conf line 103: > "SchedulingParameter=max_switch_wait=86400" > scontrol: fatal: Unable to process configuration file > ################################### > > Does anyone know the correct name and usage of this parameter? > > Thank you. > > Regards, > > Uwe > -- -- Carles Fenoy
