We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 17.11.9.
This includes 10 fixes made since 17.11.8 was released last month,
including a fix to prevent hung srun processes that can manifest during
massively parallel jobs.
Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php .
- Tim
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Tim Wickberg
Chief Technology Officer, SchedMD LLC
Commercial Slurm Development and Support
* Changes in Slurm 17.11.9
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-- Fix segfault in slurmctld when a job's node bitmap is NULL during a
scheduling cycle. Primarily caused by EnforcePartLimits=ALL.
-- Remove erroneous unlock in acct_gather_energy/ipmi.
-- Enable support for hwloc version 2.0.1.
-- Fix 'srun -q' (--qos) option handling.
-- Fix socket communication issue that can lead to lost task completion
messages, which will cause a permanently stuck srun process.
-- Handle creation of TMPDIR if environment variable is set or changed in
a task prolog script.
-- Avoid node layout fragmentation if running with a fixed CPU count but
without Sockets and CoresPerSocket defined.
-- burst_buffer/cray - Fix datawarp swap default pool overriding jobdw.
-- Fix incorrect job priority assignment for multi-partition job with
different PriorityTier settings on the partitions.
-- Fix sinfo to print correct node state
