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<p>I know I'm very late to this thread, but were/are you using the
--allusers flag to sacct? If not, sacct only returns results for
the user running the command (not sure if this is the case for
root - I never need to run sacct as root). This minor detail
tripped me up a few days ago when I was expecting hundreds of
thousands of results, and only got a couple hundred, which were
*my* jobs from the period I was searching, not *all* jobs. I was
about to have a heart attack because I thought someone purged the
SlurmDB. <br>
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<p>For those wondering, I was using -o to get only a few pieces of
data per job from my query, and userid wasn't one of them, which
is why my mistake wasn't so obvious at first. <br>
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<p>Prentice</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/12/2020 4:49 PM, Erik Bryer
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That worked pretty well in that I got more data than I ever have
before by a lot. It only goes back about 18 days, but I'm not
sure why. The slurmdbd.conf back then contained no directives on
retaining logs, which is supposed to mean it defaults to
retaining them indefinitely. On another test cluster it shows
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Hi John,</div>
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Have you tried specifying a start time? The default is
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sacct -S 2020-11-01T00:00:00</div>
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Our accounting database retains all job data from the epoch of
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Best,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">My jobs database empties after about 1 day.
"sacct -a" returns no results. I've tried to lengthen
that, but have been unsuccessful. I've tried adding the
following to slurmdbd.conf and restarting slurmdbd:
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<div>ArchiveJobs=yes</div>
<div>PurgeEventAfter=1month</div>
<div>PurgeJobAfter=12month</div>
<div>PurgeResvAfter=1month</div>
<div>PurgeStepAfter=1month</div>
<div>PurgeSuspendAfter=1month</div>
<div>PurgeTXNAfter=12month</div>
<div>PurgeUsageAfter=24month</div>
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<div>No job archives appear (in the default /tmp dir)
either. What I'd like to do is have the slurm database
retain information on jobs for at least a few weeks,
writing out data beyond that threshold to files, but
mainly I just want to keep job data in the database for
longer.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>John</div>
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