Hi Carlos,
that's it.
So regarding a) the html documentation is wrong and regarding b) there
was a typo on my side.
Thanks a lot,
Uwe
Am 20.10.2014 um 14:33 schrieb Carlos Fenoy:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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
