<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Restart of slurm daemons will normally also doesn't affect running jobs..</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from Samsung tablet.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Wiegand, Paul" <wiegand@ist.ucf.edu> </div><div>Date: 28/05/2018 14:19 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Running 'scontrol reconfigure" while jobs are running </div><div><br></div></div>I have run scontrol reconfigure while jobs are running many times, and there's never been an effect on running jobs as far as I have been able to ascertain. Our cluster stays active 24/7, and we do a variety of things that require a reconfigure from time-to-time (e.g., add new nodes). If we had to wait until jobs stopped to do such things, it would be prohibitive.<br><br>> On May 28, 2018, at 07:01, Lachlan Musicman <datakid@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> On 28 May 2018 at 20:24, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:<br>> Hi Ronan,<br>> <br>> "Buckley, Ronan" <Ronan.Buckley@Dell.com> writes:<br>> <br>> > Hi All,<br>> ><br>> > I am unable to get confirmation from the SLURM documentation that<br>> > there is no impact to active SLURM jobs when “scontrol reconfigure” is<br>> > ran to enforce new SLURM configuration from /etc/slurm/slurm.conf.<br>> ><br>> > Can anybody confirm that there is no impact?<br>> <br>> Reconfigure does not impact jobs.<br>> <br>> Ronan,<br>> <br>> Can confirm similar fears when I stated using SLURM, can confirm Loris' claim. Jobs are not affected.<br>> <br>> L.<br><br></body></html>