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Slurmd cannot find cgroup plugin
by Webb, Jordan 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

Hi all, When trying to start slurmd, it is failing with cgroup issues. Any suggestions on where to troubleshoot this issue? x8000c0s0b0n0:~ # slurmd -V slurm 24.11.0 x8000c0s0b0n0:~ # slurmd -D -vvv slurmd: debug: Log file re-opened slurmd: debug2: hwloc_topology_init slurmd: debug2: hwloc_topology_load slurmd: debug2: hwloc_topology_export_xml slurmd: debug: CPUs:288 Boards:1 Sockets:4 CoresPerSocket:72 ThreadsPerCore:1 slurmd: error: Couldn't find the specified plugin name for cgroup/v2 looking at all files slurmd: error: cannot find cgroup plugin for cgroup/v2 slurmd: error: cannot create cgroup context for cgroup/v2 slurmd: error: Unable to initialize cgroup plugin slurmd: error: slurmd initialization failed x8000c0s0b0n0:~ # mount | grep cgroup cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot) x8000c0s0b0n0:~ # grep cgroup /etc/slurm/slurm.conf ProctrackType=proctrack/cgroup TaskPlugin=task/affinity,task/cgroup Thanks! Jordan

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Re: Slurm "showpartitions" tool has been updated
by Ole Holm Nielsen 17 Jan '25

17 Jan '25

Hi Robert, What's your version of Slurm? We run 24.05.5. The showpartitions tools compacts the list of nodenames using "scontrol show hostlistsorted <nodelist>". Can you please check your scontrol manual page if "hostlistsorted" is documented? Does the command work without -N? Thanks, Ole On 17-01-2025 19:54, Robert Kudyba wrote: > Hello Ole, > > If you'd like me to post this on the Git page LMK. Any idea why this > error invalid encode argument with -N? > ./showpartitions -N > Print partitions nodelists > Partition statistics for cluster axon at Fri Jan 17 13:51:43 EST 2025 > Partition #Nodes #CPU_cores Cores_pending Job_Nodes > MaxJobTime Cores Mem/Node NODELIST > Name State Total Idle Total Idle Resorc Other Min Max Day- > hr:mn /node (GB) > nklab up 4 0 352 125 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 48 191+invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > ctn up 3 1 168 152 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 56 128 invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > issa up 5 1 384 128 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 64 191+invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > naplab up 3 1 320 231 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 64 515+invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > lkumar up 3 2 192 191 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 64 515 invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > u19moc3 up 1 1 96 96 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 96 257 invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > abbott up 3 2 192 187 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 64 515 invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > miller up 3 2 192 190 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 64 515 invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > burst up 25 10 1896 1300 0 0 1 infin > 5-00:00 48 128+invalid encode argument > scontrol [<OPTION>] [<COMMAND>] > zrc up 6 1 376 190 0 0 1 infin > 10-00:00 48 128+invalid encode argument > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users <slurm- > users(a)lists.schedmd.com <mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>> wrote: > > Dear Slurm users, > > The "showpartitions" tool prints a Slurm cluster partition status > overview > with 1 line per partition. Color coding helps locating under- or > over-utilized partitions. > > The Slurm "showpartitions" tool has now been updated with a new "-N" > flag > which prints the nodename list for each partition. > > You can download this tool from > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url? > u=https-3A__github.com_OleHolmNielsen_Slurm-5Ftools_tree_master_partitions&d=DwICAg&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=X0jL9y0sL4r4iU_qVtR3lLNo4tOL1ry_m7-psV3GejY&m=SvjV7A7QvPs0H4AmOiKvni-pI3DeHZmNgrCPf9ije3ftTN6STgomGCGHyuspdUFz&s=e2VRHqxuaDlLYggVv8eW9tkQqfXU332ucgmnqiU3Toc&e= <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_OleHolmNiel…> > > If you have any issues or suggestions, please write to > Ole.H.Nielsen(a)fysik.dtu.dk <mailto:Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk> or > open an issue on GitHub. > > Best regards, > Ole > > -- > Ole Holm Nielsen > PhD, Senior HPC Officer > Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark > > -- > slurm-users mailing list -- slurm-users(a)lists.schedmd.com > <mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> > To unsubscribe send an email to slurm-users-leave(a)lists.schedmd.com > <mailto:slurm-users-leave@lists.schedmd.com> >

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Slurm "showpartitions" tool has been updated
by Ole Holm Nielsen 17 Jan '25

17 Jan '25

Dear Slurm users, The "showpartitions" tool prints a Slurm cluster partition status overview with 1 line per partition. Color coding helps locating under- or over-utilized partitions. The Slurm "showpartitions" tool has now been updated with a new "-N" flag which prints the nodename list for each partition. You can download this tool from https://github.com/OleHolmNielsen/Slurm_tools/tree/master/partitions If you have any issues or suggestions, please write to Ole.H.Nielsen(a)fysik.dtu.dk or open an issue on GitHub. Best regards, Ole -- Ole Holm Nielsen PhD, Senior HPC Officer Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark

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job_container/tmpfs and srun.
by Phill Harvey-Smith 17 Jan '25

17 Jan '25

Hi all, On our setup we are using job_container/tmpfs to give each job it's own temp space. Since our compute nodes have reasonably sized disks for tasks that do a lot of disk I/O on user's data we have asked users to copy their data to the local disk at the beginning of the task and (if needed) copy it back at the end. This saves lots of NFS thrashing slowing down both the task and the NFS servers. However some of our users are having problems with this, their initial sbatch script will create a temp directory in their private /tmp copy their data to it and then try to srun a program. The srun will fall over as it doesn't seem to have have access to the copied data. I suspect this is because the srun task is getting it's own private /tmp. So my question is, is there a way to have the srun task inherit the /tmp of the initial sbatch? I'll include a sample of the script our user is using below. If any further information is required please feel free to ask. Cheers. Phill. #!/usr/bin/bash #SBATCH --nodes 1 #SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1 #SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1 #SBATCH --time=00:00:10 #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=3999 #SBATCH --output=script_out.log #SBATCH --error=script_error.log # The above options puts the STDOUT and STDERR of sbatch in # log files prefixed with 'script_'. # Create a randomly-named directory under /tmp jobtmpdir=$(mktemp -d) # Register a function to try and cleanup in case of job failure cleanup_handler() { echo "Cleaning up ${jobtmpdir}" rm -rf ${jobtmpdir} } trap 'cleanup_handler' SIGTERM EXIT # Change working directory to this directory cd ${jobtmpdir} # Copy the executable and input files from # where the job was submitted to the temporary directory. cp ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}/a.out . cp ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}/input.txt . # Run the executable, handling the collection of stdout # and stderr ourselves by redirecting to file srun ./a.out 2> task_error.log > task_out.log # Copy output data back to the submit directory. cp output.txt ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR} cp task_out.log ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR} cp task_error.log ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR} # Cleanup cd ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR} cleanup_handler

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Unable to receive password reminder
by Loris Bennett 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

Hi, Over a week ago I sent the message below to the address I found for the list owner, but have not received a response. Does anyone know how to proceed in this case? Cheers, Loris -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- From: Loris Bennett <loris.bennett(a)fu-berlin.de> To: <slurm-users-owner(a)lists.schedmd.com> Subject: Unable to receive password reminder Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:35:42 +0100 Dear list owner, I have recently switched from reading the list via mail to using the mail to news gateway at news.gmane.io. Therefore I would like change my mailman settings in order to stop delivery of postings via mail. As I have forgotten my list password, I requested a reminder. However I get the reply that no user with the given email address was found in the user database. The addresses I tried were loris.bennett(a)fu-berlin.de loris(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de the former being an alias for the latter. This is the email account which to which emails from the list are sent, so I am somewhat confused as to why the neither of the addresses is recognised. Could you please help me to resolve this issue? Regards Loris Bennett -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin -------------------- End of forwarded message -------------------- -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin

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Environment Variables per Queue
by Vitorio Cargnini 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

Hello, Can environment variables be set up based on a specific queue? How do I set up the environment variables for a given queue? Like we are deploying SLURM to control our jobs of simulation using VCS, and we don't want to make public the LM_LICENSE environment variable to all users. So we would like to set it on the queue once a job is started on that queue would have that environment variable. Regards, Vitorio

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Discrepancy in TmpDisk values between scontrol and sinfo in Slurm24.05.3
by Gizo Nanava 11 Jan '25

11 Jan '25

There seems to be an issue with the TmpDisk value reporting in Slurm 24.05.3. While the correct value is displayed using the scontrol show nodes command, sinfo appears to report an incorrect value under certain conditions. For example, the TmpDisk parameter for my compute nodes is configured as 21800000 (21.8 TB) in slurm.conf, and this value is shown correctly with > scontrol show nodes ai-n007 ...... State=MIXED ThreadsPerCore=1 TmpDisk=21800000 Weight=1 Owner=N/A MCS_label=N/A .... However, when using the sinfo command with the -O Disk:20 option, the displayed value is 2180000, which is an order of magnitude lower: > sinfo -hO Disk:20 -n ai-n007 2180000 It appears that sinfo might be truncating or misinterpreting values with 8 or more digits. Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Is this a known bug in Slurm 24.05.3? Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Gizo

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Power saving is getting disabled in Slurm
by Suman Deb 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Hello, We are enabling global power saving for slurm. This is our config. But we are experiencing an issue where Slurm is talking nodes out of power saving mode. We are using config less and dynamic nodes. Slurmctrld logs 2025-01-08T09:54:18.096] Cleared POWER_SAVE flag from nodes dev3-cbf-debug-e2std4-s0-[0-1],dev3-cbf-infra-e2std4-s0-[0-1],dev3-cbf-slurmd-e2std4-[0-4] [2025-01-08T09:54:18.097] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:05:09.683] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:12:00.447] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:17:27.077] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:20:06.735] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:26:16.663] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:26:19.017] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T10:46:25.078] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T15:58:54.080] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-08T15:58:56.452] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-09T00:08:01.993] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-09T00:08:02.157] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-09T00:14:26.817] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 [2025-01-09T00:14:26.971] debug: power_save module disabled, SuspendTime < 0 We manage the infra through Puppet and I can confirm is SuspendTime=3600. Slurm version:- slurm 24.05.2 # SLURM POWER SAVING FEATURS SuspendProgram=/etc/slurm/suspend_nodes_slurm.par ResumeProgram=/etc/slurm/resume_nodes_slurm.par SuspendTimeout=600 ResumeTimeout=900 ResumeRate=100 SuspendRate=100 SuspendTime=3600 SlurmctldParameters=enable_configless,cloud_dns,idle_on_node_suspend DebugFlags=Power

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Unexpected node got allocation
by Dan Healy 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Hello there and good morning from Baltimore. I have a small cluster with 100 nodes. When the cluster is completely empty of all jobs, the first job gets allocated to node 41. In other clusters, the first job gets allocated to mode 01. If I specify node 01, the allocation works perfectly. I have my partition NodeName set as node[01-99], so having node41 used first is a surprise to me. We also have many other partitions which start with node41, but the partition being used for the allocation starts with node01. Does anyone know what would cause this? Thanks, Daniel Healy

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need help with seff script on ubuntu (slurm 21.08)
by Gérard Henry (AMU) 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Hello all and happy new year, i have installed slurm 21.08 on ubuntu 22 LTS, and database for accounting on a remote machine running same release. I got seff from: https://support.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1611 but, there are errors: Use of uninitialized value $ncpus in numeric eq (==) at /usr/bin/seff line 72, <DATA> line 602. Use of uninitialized value $lmem in numeric lt (<) at /usr/bin/seff line 109, <DATA> line 602. Job ID: 14 Cluster: cathena2 Use of uninitialized value $user in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/seff line 126, <DATA> line 602. does anyone have a more recent version? i try to enable debug uncommenting the line: 60c60 < #print Dumper($job); --- > print Dumper($job); but it's strange, because if you run the seff command several times in a row, the dump result is very different, even though the job has been completed. It doesn't change the most important values, but how is it possible not to have the same output? Thanks in advance for help, -- Gérard HENRY Institut Fresnel - UMR 7249 +33 413945457 Aix-Marseille Université - Campus Etoile, BATIMENT FRESNEL, Avenue Escadrille Normandie Niemen, 13013 Marseille Site : https://fresnel.fr/ Afin de respecter l'environnement, merci de n'imprimer cet email que si nécessaire.

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