It looks like I might stand corrected though. It looks like you will
have to wait for the month to go by before the purge starts.
With a lot of jobs it may take a while depending on the speed of your
disk and such. If you have the debugflag=DB_USAGE you should see the
sql statements go by. This will be quite verbose, so it might not be
that great of an idea. You can edit the slurmdbd.conf file with the
flag and run "sacctmgr reconfig" to add or remove the flag.
You can force a purge which in turn will force an archive with
sacctmgr archive dump
see http://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html
Danny
On 03/06/2015 10:12 AM, Paul Edmon wrote:
How long does that typically take? Because I have done it on our
large job database and I have seen nothing yet.
-Paul Edmon
On 03/06/2015 01:07 PM, Danny Auble wrote:
If you had older than 6 month data I would expect it to purge on
restart of the slurmdbd. You will see a message in the log when the
archive file is created.
On 03/06/2015 09:58 AM, Paul Edmon wrote:
Okay, that's what I suspected. We set it to 6 months. So I guess
then the purge will happen on April 1st.
-Paul Edmon-
On 03/06/2015 12:33 PM, Danny Auble wrote:
Paul, do you have Purge* set up in the slurmdbd.conf? Archiving
takes place during the Purge process. If no Purge values are set
archiving will never take place since nothing is ever purged. When
Purge values are set the related archivings take place on an
hourly, daily, and monthly basis depending on the units your purge
values are set to.
If PurgeJobs=2months the archive would take place at the beginning
of each month. If it were set to 2hours it would happen each hour.
The purge will also happen on slurmdbd startup as well if running
things for the first time.
Danny
On 03/06/2015 08:20 AM, Paul Edmon wrote:
So we recently turned this on to archive jobs older than 6 months.
However when we restarted slurmdbd nothing happened, at least no
file was deposited at the specified archive location. Is there a
way to force it to purge? When is the archiving scheduled to be
done? We definitely have jobs older than 6 months in the
database, I'm just curious about the schedule of when the
archiving is done.
-Paul Edmon-
