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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Was looking at the running jobs on one groups cluster, and saw there was an insane amount of “running” jobs when I did a sacct -X -s R; then looked at output of squeue, and found a much more reasonable number...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">root@slurm-controller1:/ # sacct -X -p -s R | wc -l<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">8895<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">root@ slurm-controller1:/ # squeue | wc -l<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">43<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In looking for the cause, I see a large amount of the following in the slurmctld.log file:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:36:51.464] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_STEP_START:1442 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:40:27.515] error: slurmdbd: agent queue filling (20140), RESTART SLURMDBD NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:40:27.515] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_JOB_COMPLETE:1424 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:40:27.515] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_STEP_COMPLETE:1441 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:42:40.766] error: slurmdbd: agent queue filling (20140), RESTART SLURMDBD NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:42:40.766] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_STEP_START:1442 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:46:05.905] error: slurmdbd: agent queue filling (20140), RESTART SLURMDBD NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:46:05.905] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_STEP_COMPLETE:1441 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:46:05.905] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_JOB_COMPLETE:1424 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:48:42.616] error: slurmdbd: agent queue filling (20140), RESTART SLURMDBD NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:48:42.616] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_JOB_COMPLETE:1424 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:48:42.616] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_STEP_COMPLETE:1441 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:53:00.188] error: slurmdbd: agent queue filling (20140), RESTART SLURMDBD NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:53:00.188] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_JOB_COMPLETE:1424 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2019-07-16T09:53:00.189] error: slurmdbd: agent queue is full (20140), discarding DBD_STEP_COMPLETE:1441 request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What may be the cause of this issue? And, is there any way now to correct the accounting records in the db?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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