On Friday, May 29th, 2026 at 17:00, Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/29/26 09:40, Kevin Buckley (Pawsey) via slurm-users wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 at 17:53, Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> The safe way to enable the new purge parameters is to introduce them very > >> gradually, for example: > >> > >> PurgeJobScriptAfter=2000days > >> PurgeJobEnvAfter=2000days > >> > >> and lower the values little by little over time (restarting slurmdbd each > >> time). > > > > Do you mean to start off with a value of 2000 days? > > Yes, 2000 days purging interval would do no harm and ensure that you don't > overload the slurmdbd server with database operations, so it's good for an > initial test where you check the slurmdbd performance over a couple of > days where daily purging takes place. > > I have an extended discussion of Slurm database purging in this Wiki page: > https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_database/#setting-database-purge-parameters > ... > > Would you agree on these considerations?
So there's an assumption there that one is starting with a database that has entries that are over 2000 days old? In which case, given that context, yes. Regards, Kevin Buckley -- slurm-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
