... and it seems my phone cut off the top of your message so it may be more complex than I thought. I've had the 'zero bytes' problem recently and it's been caused by incorrect specification of consumable resources, date/time out of sync with client/server and sometimes a mismatched version between slurmd and slurmctld
Do email back if that doesn't fix it Mike On 23 October 2014 19:10, Mike Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Henk. > > Two things to check: > > Date and time synced. > > Correct number of resources set in slurm.conf. slurmd -C on the node should > tell you the correct info. > > Mike > > On 23 Oct 2014 18:38, "SLIM H.A." <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wish to use slurm on our cluster and it has recently been installed and >> configured with SelectType=select/linear and this is working. >> I want to modify the configuration to allow serial jobs sharing a node and >> modified the conf file like this: >> >> # diff slurm.conf slurm.conf.20141022 >> 65,66c65 >> < SelectType=select/cons_res >> < SelectTypeParameters=CR_CPU >> --- >> > SelectType=select/linear >> >> The modified file slurm.conf(.select) is attached. >> >> On submitting a job I now get this error message: >> >> # sbatch -p thin -N 2 slurm_gcc.csh >> sbatch: error: slurm_receive_msg: Zero Bytes were transmitted or received >> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Zero Bytes were transmitted or >> received >> >> Am I missing something in the configuration here? >> >> Thanks >> >> Henk
