While I can't tell you how much memory is required, I can say that I've seen warnings in the logs when this has happened, including a more urgent warning that the cache is about to fill up.
Cheers, Adam On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Loris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On the Slurm FAQ page > > https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html > > it says the following: > > 52. How critical is configuring high availability for my database? > > Consider if you really need mysql failover. Short outage of > slurmdbd is not a problem, because slurmctld will store all data > in memory and send it to slurmdbd when it's back operating. The > slurmctld daemon will also cache all user limits and fair share > information. > > I was wondering how long a "short outage" can be. Presumably this is > determined by the amount of free memory on the server running slurmctld, > the number of jobs, and the amount of memory required per job. > > So roughly how much memory will be required per job? > > Cheers, > > Loris > > -- > Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) > ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
