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InvalidAccount
by hmeij＠wesleyan.edu 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Manual compilation of 24.05.4. slurmctld and slurmd run on same server. All works ok but all test jobs end up pending with InvalidAccount message. I do not use slurm database and have not enabled accounting. Can not find an answer for this behavior or a misconfiguration. slurm.conf file was generated using easy config tool. Any ideas how to fix this? Thx, -Henk ## looks like all users have access to test queue [hmeij@sharptail2 slurm]$ sinfo -o "%g %.10R %.20l" GROUPS PARTITION … [View More]TIMELIMIT all test infinite [hmeij@sharptail2 slurm]$ sinfo PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST test* up infinite 1 idle sharptail2 ## simple sleep job [hmeij@sharptail2 slurm]$ sbatch sleep Submitted batch job 8 [hmeij@sharptail2 slurm]$ squeue JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES CPUS MIN_MEMORY NODELIST(REASON) 8 test sleep hmeij PD 0:00 1 1 1G (InvalidAccount) [hmeij@sharptail2 slurm]$ scontrol show job 8 JobId=8 JobName=sleep UserId=hmeij(8216) GroupId=its(623) MCS_label=N/A Priority=1 Nice=0 Account=(null) QOS=(null) JobState=PENDING Reason=InvalidAccount Dependency=(null) Requeue=1 Restarts=0 BatchFlag=1 Reboot=0 ExitCode=0:0 RunTime=00:00:00 TimeLimit=UNLIMITED TimeMin=N/A SubmitTime=2024-11-11T13:27:14 EligibleTime=2024-11-11T13:27:14 AccrueTime=2024-11-11T13:27:14 StartTime=Unknown EndTime=Unknown Deadline=N/A SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 LastSchedEval=2024-11-11T13:27:14 Scheduler=Main Partition=test AllocNode:Sid=sharptail2:644662 ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=(null) NodeList= NumNodes=1-1 NumCPUs=1 NumTasks=1 CPUs/Task=1 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:1:1 ReqTRES=cpu=1,mem=1G,node=1,billing=1 AllocTRES=(null) Socks/Node=1 NtasksPerN:B:S:C=1:0:*:* CoreSpec=* MinCPUsNode=1 MinMemoryNode=1G MinTmpDiskNode=0 Features=(null) DelayBoot=00:00:00 OverSubscribe=OK Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null) Command=/zfshomes/hmeij/slurm/sleep WorkDir=/zfshomes/hmeij/slurm StdErr=/zfshomes/hmeij/slurm/err StdIn=/dev/null StdOut=/zfshomes/hmeij/slurm/out TresPerTask=cpu=1 ## within a minute or so that InvalidAccount changes to None ( ## but job remains pending; 1-7 stuck over the weekend) [hmeij@sharptail2 slurm]$ squeue JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES CPUS MIN_MEMORY NODELIST(REASON) 8 test sleep hmeij PD 0:00 1 1 1G (None) ## in the slurmctld.log slurmctld: sched: JobId=8 has invalid account slurmctld: debug: set_job_failed_assoc_qos_ptr: Filling in assoc for JobId=8 Assoc=0 slurmctld: debug: sched: Running job scheduler for full queue. slurmctld: error: _refresh_assoc_mgr_qos_list: no new list given back keeping cached one. ##and the slurm.conf accounting section (both AccountingStorageType lines yield same behavior) #AccountingStorageType= AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/none #JobAcctGatherFrequency=30 #JobAcctGatherType= ## using SchedulerType = sched/builtin [View Less]

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Listen to job state changes
by egonle＠posteo.me 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Hello, is there any way to listen to job state changes of slurm 23.x or newer? I’d like to kind of subscribe to job state changes instead of polling for job states. Adding this feature to slurm accounting DB seems to be last option right now, although I’d like to avoid it. Thanks&Best Egonle

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How to power up all ~idle nodes and verify that they have started up without issue programmatically
by Xaver Stiensmeier 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Dear Slurm User list, I would like to startup all ~idle (idle and powered down) nodes and check programmatically if all came up as expected. For context: this is for a program that sets up slurm clusters with on demand cloud scheduling. In the most easiest fashion this could be executing a command like *srun FORALL hostname* which would return the names of the nodes if it succeeds and an error message otherwise. However, there's no such input value like FORALL as far as I am aware. One could … [View More]

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First setup of slurm with a GPU node
by Patrick Begou 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hi, I'm using slurm on a small 8 nodes cluster. I've recently added one GPU node with two Nvidia A100, one with 40Gb of RAM and one with 80Gb. As using this GPU resource increase I would like to manage this resource with Gres to avoid usage conflict. But at this time my setup do not works as I can reach a GPU without reserving it: srun -n 1 -p tenibre-gpu ./a.out can use a GPU even if the reservation do not specify this resource (checked with running nvidia-smi on the node). "… [View More]

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Slurm and NVIDIA NVML
by Matthias Leopold 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hi, I'm trying to compile Slurm with NVIDIA NVML support, but the result is unexpected. I get /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/slurm/gpu_nvml.so, but when I do "ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/slurm/gpu_nvml.so" there is no reference to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-ml.so.1 (which I would expect). ~$ ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/slurm/gpu_nvml.so linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd9a3f4000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f0bc2c06000) /lib64/ld-linux-… [View More]

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Slurm release candidate version 24.11.0rc1 available for testing
by Marshall Garey 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm release candidate 24.11.0rc1. To highlight some new features coming in 24.11: - New gpu/nvidia plugin. This does not rely on any NVIDIA libraries, and will build by default on all systems. It supports basic GPU detection and management, but cannot currently identify GPU-to-GPU links, or provide usage data as these are not exposed by the kernel driver. - Add autodetected GPUs to the output from "slurmd -C". - Added new QOS-based reports … [View More]

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Container Problems with various oci.conf settings
by Jason Pascucci 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Hi, I'm running on Ubuntu 20.04. I've got a clean configuration of slurmctld and slurmd on one node. 1) I've configured oci.conf to the defaults defined by "OCI.CONF EXAMPLE FOR RUNC USING RUN (RECOMMENDED OVER USING CREATE/START):". I have a container that I can run by hand: runc --rootless true run -b /opt/pilot_results/results.20241108-184831/step1 test sh-4.2# exit exit and it returns. However, when I srun --container=/opt/pilot_results/results.20241108-184831/step1 ls it hangs … [View More]

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slurmctld keeps segfaulting, possibly during or just after backfill
by Marcus Lauer 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

We are running into a problem where slurmctld is segfaulting a few times a day. We had this problem with SLURM 23.11.8 and now with 23.11.10 as well, though the problem only appears on one of the several SLURM clusters we have, and all of them use one of those versions of SLURM. I was wondering if anyone has encountered a similar issue and has any thoughts on how to prevent this. Obviously we use "SchedulerType=sched/backfill" but strangely when I switched to sched/builtin for a while … [View More]there were still slurmctld segfaults. We also set "SchedulerParameters=enable_user_top,bf_max_job_test=2000". I have tried turning those off but it did not help. I have also tried tweaking several other settings to no avail. Most of the cluster runs Rocky Linux 8.10 (including the slurmctld system) though we still have some Scientific Linux 7.9 compute nodes (we compile SLURM separately for those). Here is the crash-time error from journalctl: Oct 02 06:31:20 our.host.name kernel: sched_agent[2048355]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fec755d7ea8 sp 00007fec6bffe7e8 error 4 in libslurmfull.so[7fec7555a000+1f4000] Oct 02 06:31:20 our.host.name kernel: Code: 48 39 c1 7e 19 48 c1 f8 06 ba 01 00 00 00 48 d3 e2 48 f7 da 48 0b 54 c6 10 48 21 54 c7 10 c3 b8 00 00 00 00 eb da 48 8b 4f 08 <48> 39 4e 08 48 0f 4e 4e 08 49 89 c9 48 83 f9 3f 76 4e ba 40 00 00 Oct 02 06:31:20 our.host.name systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 2169426/UID 0). Oct 02 06:31:20 our.host.name systemd-coredump[2169427]: Process 2048344 ( slurmctld) of user 991 dumped core. This is followed by a list of each of the dozen or so related threads. The one which is dumping core is first and looks like this: Stack trace of thread 2048355: #0 0x00007fec755d7ea8 bit_and_not (libslurmfull.so) #1 0x000000000044531f _job_alloc (slurmctld) #2 0x000000000044576b _job_alloc_whole_node_internal (slurmctld) #3 0x0000000000446e6d gres_ctld_job_alloc_whole_node (slurmctld) #4 0x00007fec722e29b8 job_res_add_job (select_cons_tres.so) #5 0x00007fec722f7c32 select_p_select_nodeinfo_set (select_cons_tres.so) #6 0x00007fec756e7dc7 select_g_select_nodeinfo_set (libslurmfull.so) #7 0x0000000000496eb3 select_nodes (slurmctld) #8 0x0000000000480826 _schedule (slurmctld) #9 0x00007fec753421ca start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #10 0x00007fec745f78d3 __clone (libc.so.6) I have run slurmctld with "debug5" level logging and it appears that the error occurs right after backfill considers a large number of jobs. Slurmctld could be failing at the end of backfill or when doing something which happens just after backfill runs. Usually this is the last message before the crash: [2024-09-25T18:39:42.076] slurmscriptd: debug: _slurmscriptd_mainloop: finished If anyone has any thoughts or advice on this that would be appreciated. Thank you. -- Marcus Lauer Systems Administrator CETS Group, Research Support [View Less]

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The hostname resolution case sensitive
by Bill 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Hi, I want to confirm that the hostname resolution is case sensitive in SLURM ? Many thanks, Bill

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Discrepancy in GPU Hour Reporting Between sacct and sreport in SLURM
by Manisha Yadav 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

I am trying to find the GPU hour utilization for a user during a specific time period using the sacct and sreport commands. However, I am noticing a significant difference between the outputs of these two commands. Could you explain the reasons for this discrepancy? Are there specific factors or configurations in SLURM that could lead to variations in the reported GPU hours? There is a significant discrepancy in the results produced for GPU hour utilization by the sacct and sreport commands … [View More]

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Access denied by pam_slurm_adopt
by John Hearns 10 Nov '24

10 Nov '24

I have cluster which uses Slurm 23.11.6 When I submit a multi-node job and run something like clush -b -w $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST "date" very often the ssh command fails with: Access denied by pam_slurm_adopt: you have no active jobs on this node This will happen maybe on 50% of the nodes There is the same behaviour of I salloc a number of nodes then try to ssh to a node. I have traced this to slurmstepd spawning a long sleep, which I believe allows proctrackd to 'see' if a job is active. On … [View More]

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Change primary alloc node
by Bhaskar Chakraborty 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Hi, Is there a way to change/control the primary node (i.e. where the initial task starts) as part of a job's allocation. For eg, if a job requires 6 CPUs & its allocation is distributed over 3 hosts h1, h2 & h3 I find that it always starts the task in 1 particularnode (say h1) irrespective of how many slots were available in the hosts. Can we somehow let slurm have the primary node as h2? Is there any C-API inside select plugin which can do this trick if we were to control it through … [View More]

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Slurm Job Sched Priority
by Bhaskar Chakraborty 03 Nov '24

03 Nov '24

Hello, Is there any DS in slurmctld which portrays the dynamic relative priority of pending jobs? We are trying to use slurm for developing a scheduling solution and 1 of the problems we face at the outset is how to determinethe order of scheduling for pending jobs. One option is to find scheduling iteration window begin & close pointers & cache the job ids as seen in order & then make them the priority order at that point of time. ( This means for 500 pending jobs, say, if we can … [View More]

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Re: Change primary alloc node
by Bhaskar Chakraborty 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Hello, Just to add some context here. We plan to use slurm for developing a sched solution which interacts with a backend system. Now, the backend system has pieces of h/w which require specific host in the allocation to be the primary/master host wherein the initial task would be launched, this in turn is driven by the job's placement orientation on the h/w itself. So, our primary task should launch in the asked primary host while secondary / remote tasks would subsequently get started on … [View More]

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Why AllowAccounts not work in slurm-23.11.6
by daijiangkuicgo＠gmail.com 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

I have set AllowAccounts=sunlabc5hpc,root, but it doesn’t seem to work. User c010637 is not part of the sunlabc5hpc account but is still able to use the sunlabc5hpc partition. I have tried setting EnforcePartLimits to ALL, ANY, and NO, but none of these options resolved the issue. [c010637@sl-login ~]$ sinfo PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST cpu* up infinite 3 mix sl-c[0035,0042-0043] cpu* up infinite 1 idle sl-c0036 gpu up … [View More]

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Re: 转发: What is the safe upgrade path when upgrade from slurm21.08 and mariadb5.5?
by taleintervenor＠sjtu.edu.cn 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Thanks for all your help. So it seems we can skip the trouble of compiling SLURM over different mariadb versions. Tianyang Zhang SJTU Network Information Center 发件人: Sid Young <sid.young(a)gmail.com> 发送时间: 2024年10月30日 7:19 收件人: Andrej Sec <andrej.sec(a)savba.sk> 抄送: taleintervenor(a)sjtu.edu.cn; slurm-users(a)lists.schedmd.com 主题: Re: [slurm-users] Re: 转发: What is the safe upgrade path when upgrade from slurm21.08 and mariadb5.5? I recently upgraded from 20.11 to 24.… [View More]05.2, before moving the cluster from CentOS 7.9 to Oracle Linux 8.10 The DB upgrade should be pretty simple, do a mysqldump first, then uninstall the old DB, change the repo's and install the new DB version. It should recognise the DB files on disk and access them. Do another DB backup on the new DB version. then roll through the Slurm upgrades. I picked the first and last version of each release, and systematically went through each node till it was done. First the slurm controller node, then the compute nodes. To avoid Job loss, drain the nodes or you end up with a situation where the slurmd can't talk to the running slurmstepd and the job(s) gets lost. (Shows as a "Protocol Error"). Ole sent me a link to this guide which mostly worked. https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_installation/#upgrade-slurm… Sid Young W: https://off-grid-engineering.com On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 6:33 PM Andrej Sec via slurm-users <slurm-users(a)lists.schedmd.com <mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> > wrote: Hi, we are facing a similar task. We have a Slurm 22.05 / MariaDB 5.5.68 environment and want to upgrade to a newer version. According to the documentation, it’s recommended to upgrade from 22.05 to a maximum of 23.11 in one step. With the MariaDB upgrade, there’s a challenge between 10.1 and 10.2+ due to incompatible changes (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-10-2). This upgrade, as I understand from the documentation, requires at least slurm 22.05, where it is automatically handled by the slurmdbd service. In the test lab, we performed the following tests: a. Incremental upgrade - according to MariaDB recommendations: 1. Upgrade MariaDB 5.5.68 -> 10.1.48 -> 10.2.44 2. Start the Slurm suite 22.05, checking content after each MariaDB upgrade step. During the 10.1 -> 10.2 upgrade, the slurmdbd service automatically converted the database to the required format. We had enabled general.log in MariaDB, allowing detailed inspection of database changes during conversion. 3. Upgrade slurmdbd to version 23.11 4. Upgrade slurmctld to version 23.11 5. Upgrade slurmd to version 23.11 6. Check the database content and compare tests before and after the upgrade (we used various reports with scontrol, sreport, sacct, sacctmgr for verification). b. Direct MariaDB upgrade from 5.5.68 to 10.2.44 using the same approach. According to the tests, this resulted in the same state as the incremental approach. PS: If you proceed with the upgrade, I would appreciate it if you could let us know about any potential challenges you encountered. Andrej Sec nscc, Bratislava, Slovakia _____ Od: "hermes via slurm-users" <slurm-users(a)lists.schedmd.com <mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> > Komu: slurm-users(a)lists.schedmd.com <mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> Odoslané: pondelok, 28. október 2024 8:48:19 Predmet: [slurm-users] =?eucgb2312_cn?q?=D7=AA=B7=A2=3A_What_is_the_safe_upgrade_path_when_upgrade_from_slurm21=2E08_and_mariadb5=2E5=3F?= Hi everyone: We are currently running business on SLURM21.08 and mariadb5.5. When talking about the upgrade, we need to keep all the users and jobs history data. And we see the official document wrote: “When upgrading an existing accounting database to MariaDB 10.2.1 or later from an older version of MariaDB or any version of MySQL, ensure you are running slurmdbd 22.05.7 or later. These versions will gracefully handle changes to MariaDB default values that can cause problems for slurmdbd.” So is this mean we have to firstly build SLURM>22.05 over mariadb5.5, and do the SLURM upgrade. Then upgrade the mariadb to newer version, and rebuild the same version of SLURM over new mariadb-devel? And is it safe to jump directly from mariadb5.5 to latest version? How can we check whether the slurm have correctly inherited the historical data? Thanks, Tianyang Zhang SJTU Network Information Center -- 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> -- 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> [View Less]

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转发: What is the safe upgrade path when upgrade from slurm21.08 and mariadb5.5?
by taleintervenor＠sjtu.edu.cn 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Hi everyone: We are currently running business on SLURM21.08 and mariadb5.5. When talking about the upgrade, we need to keep all the users and jobs history data. And we see the official document wrote: “When upgrading an existing accounting database to MariaDB 10.2.1 or later from an older version of MariaDB or any version of MySQL, ensure you are running slurmdbd 22.05.7 or later. These versions will gracefully handle changes to MariaDB default values that can cause problems for … [View More]

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Job pre / post submit scripts
by Bhaskar Chakraborty 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Hi, Is there an option in slurm to launch a custom script at the time of job submission through sbatchor salloc? The script should run with submit user permission in submit area. The idea is that we need to enquire something which characterises our job’s requirement like CPUslots, memory etc from a central server and we do need read access to user area prior to that. In our use case the user doesn’t necessarily know beforehand what kind of resource his job needs.(Hence, the need for such a … [View More]

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Scheduling oddity with multiple GPU types in same partition
by Kevin M. Hildebrand 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

We have a 'gpu' partition with 30 or so nodes, some with A100s, some with H100s, and a few others. It appears that when (for example) all of the A100 GPUs are in use, if there are additional jobs requesting A100 GPUs pending, and those jobs have the highest priority in the partition, then jobs submitted for H100s won't run even if there are idle H100s. This is a small subset of our present pending queue- the four bottom jobs should be running, but aren't. The top pending job shows reason '… [View More]

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I need to limit the number of jobs per user per partition
by Stephen Connolly 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

I am unable to limit the number of jobs per user per partition. I have searched the internet, the forums and the slurm documentation. I created a partition with a QOS having MaxJobsPU=1 and MaxJobsPA=1 Created a user stephen with account=stephen and MaxJobs=1 However if I sbatch a test job (sleep 180) multiple times they all run concurrently. I am at a loss of what else to do. Help would be very appreciated . Thank you -- Stephen Connolly JSI Data Systems Ltd 613-727-9353 stephen(a)jsidata.ca

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jobs dropping
by Mihai Ciubancan 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Hello, We are trying to run some PiconGPU codes on a machine with 8x100H, susing slurm. But the jobs don't run, and are not in the queue. In slurmd logs I have: [2024-10-24T09:50:40.934] CPU_BIND: _set_batch_job_limits: Memory extracted from credential for StepId=1079.batch job_mem_limit= 648000 [2024-10-24T09:50:40.934] Launching batch job 1079 for UID 1009 [2024-10-24T09:50:40.938] debug: acct_gather_energy/none: init: AcctGatherEnergy NONE plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:40.938] debug:… [View More] acct_gather_profile/none: init: AcctGatherProfile NONE plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:40.938] debug: acct_gather_interconnect/none: init: AcctGatherInterconnect NONE plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:40.938] debug: acct_gather_filesystem/none: init: AcctGatherFilesystem NONE plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:40.939] debug: gres/gpu: init: loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.022] [1079.batch] debug: cgroup/v2: init: Cgroup v2 plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.026] [1079.batch] debug: CPUs:192 Boards:1 Sockets:2 CoresPerSocket:48 ThreadsPerCore:2 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.026] [1079.batch] debug: jobacct_gather/cgroup: init: Job accounting gather cgroup plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.026] [1079.batch] CPU_BIND: Memory extracted from credential for StepId=1079.batch job_mem_limit=648000 step_mem_limit=648000 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: laying out the 8 tasks on 1 hosts mihaigpu2 dist 2 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] gres_job_state gres:gpu(7696487) type:(null)(0) job:1079 flags: [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] total_gres:8 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] node_cnt:1 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] gres_cnt_node_alloc[0]:8 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] gres_bit_alloc[0]:0-7 of 8 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: Message thread started pid = 459054 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: Setting slurmstepd(459054) oom_score_adj to -1000 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: switch/none: init: switch NONE plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: init: core enforcement enabled [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: task_cgroup_memory_init: task/cgroup/memory: total:2063720M allowed:100%(enforced), swap:0%(permissive), max:100%(2063720M) max+swap:100%(4127440M) min:30M kmem:100%(2063720M permissive) min:30M [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: init: memory enforcement enabled [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: init: Tasks containment cgroup plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] cred/munge: init: Munge credential signature plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.027] [1079.batch] debug: job_container/none: init: job_container none plugin loaded [2024-10-24T09:50:41.030] [1079.batch] debug: spank: opening plugin stack /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf [2024-10-24T09:50:41.030] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: task_cgroup_cpuset_create: job abstract cores are '0-63' [2024-10-24T09:50:41.030] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: task_cgroup_cpuset_create: step abstract cores are '0-63' [2024-10-24T09:50:41.030] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: task_cgroup_cpuset_create: job physical CPUs are '0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,96,98,100,102,104,106,108,110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124,126,128,130,132,134,136,138,140,142,144,146,148,150,152,154,156,158' [2024-10-24T09:50:41.030] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: task_cgroup_cpuset_create: step physical CPUs are '0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,96,98,100,102,104,106,108,110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124,126,128,130,132,134,136,138,140,142,144,146,148,150,152,154,156,158' [2024-10-24T09:50:41.031] [1079.batch] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: job: alloc=648000MB mem.limit=648000MB memsw.limit=unlimited [2024-10-24T09:50:41.031] [1079.batch] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: step: alloc=648000MB mem.limit=648000MB memsw.limit=unlimited [2024-10-24T09:50:41.064] [1079.batch] debug levels are stderr='error', logfile='debug', syslog='quiet' [2024-10-24T09:50:41.064] [1079.batch] starting 1 tasks [2024-10-24T09:50:41.064] [1079.batch] task 0 (459058) started 2024-10-24T09:50:41 [2024-10-24T09:50:41.069] [1079.batch] _set_limit: RLIMIT_NOFILE : reducing req:1048576 to max:131072 [2024-10-24T09:51:23.066] debug: _rpc_terminate_job: uid = 64030 JobId=1079 [2024-10-24T09:51:23.067] debug: credential for job 1079 revoked [2024-10-24T09:51:23.067] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_SIGNAL_CONTAINER [2024-10-24T09:51:23.067] [1079.batch] debug: _handle_signal_container for StepId=1079.batch uid=64030 signal=18 [2024-10-24T09:51:23.068] [1079.batch] Sent signal 18 to StepId=1079.batch [2024-10-24T09:51:23.068] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_SIGNAL_CONTAINER [2024-10-24T09:51:23.068] [1079.batch] debug: _handle_signal_container for StepId=1079.batch uid=64030 signal=15 [2024-10-24T09:51:23.068] [1079.batch] error: *** JOB 1079 ON mihaigpu2 CANCELLED AT 2024-10-24T09:51:23 *** [2024-10-24T09:51:23.069] [1079.batch] Sent signal 15 to StepId=1079.batch [2024-10-24T09:51:23.069] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_STATE [2024-10-24T09:51:23.071] [1079.batch] task 0 (459058) exited. Killed by signal 15. [2024-10-24T09:51:23.090] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_STATE [2024-10-24T09:51:23.141] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_STATE [2024-10-24T09:51:23.241] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_STATE [2024-10-24T09:51:23.741] [1079.batch] debug: Handling REQUEST_STATE [2024-10-24T09:51:24.073] [1079.batch] debug: signaling condition [2024-10-24T09:51:24.073] [1079.batch] debug: jobacct_gather/cgroup: fini: Job accounting gather cgroup plugin unloaded [2024-10-24T09:51:24.073] [1079.batch] debug: task/cgroup: fini: Tasks containment cgroup plugin unloaded [2024-10-24T09:51:24.073] [1079.batch] debug: get_exit_code task 0 killed by cmd [2024-10-24T09:51:24.073] [1079.batch] job 1079 completed with slurm_rc = 0, job_rc = 15 [2024-10-24T09:51:24.075] [1079.batch] debug: Message thread exited [2024-10-24T09:51:24.154] [1079.batch] done with job Anyone have any idea what could be the problem? Thank you, Mihai [View Less]

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Randomly draining nodes
by Nacereddine Laddaoui 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Hello everyone, I’ve recently encountered an issue where some nodes in our cluster enter a drain state randomly, typically after completing long-running jobs. Below is the output from the |sinfo| command showing the reason *“Prolog error”* : |root@controller-node:~# sinfo -R REASON USER TIMESTAMP NODELIST Prolog error slurm 2024-09-24T21:18:05 node[24,31] | When checking the |slurmd.log| files on the nodes, I noticed the following errors: |[2024-09-24T17:18:22.386] [217703.extern] … [View More]

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loss of "unchangeable" node features
by Laura Hild 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Has anyone else noticed, somewhere between versions 22.05.11 and 23.11.9, losing fixed Features defined for a node in slurm.conf, and instead now just having those controlled by a NodeFeaturesPlugin like node_features/knl_generic?

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Slurm version 24.05.4 is now available (CVE-2024-48936)
by Tim Wickberg 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Slurm version 24.05.4 is now available and includes a fix for a recently discovered security issue with the new stepmgr subsystem. SchedMD customers were informed on October 9th and provided a patch on request; this process is documented in our security policy. [1] A mistake in authentication handling in stepmgr could permit an attacker to execute processes under other users' jobs. This is limited to jobs explicitly running with --stepmgr, or on systems that have globally enabled stepmgr … [View More]through "SlurmctldParameters=enable_stepmgr" in their configuration. CVE-2024-48936. Downloads are available at https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php . Release notes follow below. - Tim [1] https://www.schedmd.com/security-policy/ -- Tim Wickberg Chief Technology Officer, SchedMD LLC Commercial Slurm Development and Support > * Changes in Slurm 24.05.4 > ========================== > -- Fix generic int sort functions. > -- Fix user look up using possible unrealized uid in the dbd. > -- Fix FreeBSD compile issue with tls/none plugin. > -- slurmrestd - Fix regressions that allowed slurmrestd to be run as SlurmUser > when SlurmUser was not root. > -- mpi/pmix fix race conditions with het jobs at step start/end which could > make srun to hang. > -- Fix not showing some SelectTypeParameters in scontrol show config. > -- Avoid assert when dumping removed certain fields in JSON/YAML. > -- Improve how shards are scheduled with affinity in mind. > -- Fix MaxJobsAccruePU not being respected when MaxJobsAccruePA is set > in the same QOS. > -- Prevent backfill from planning jobs that use overlapping resources for the > same time slot if the job's time limit is less than bf_resolution. > -- Fix memory leak when requesting typed gres and --[cpus|mem]-per-gpu. > -- Prevent backfill from breaking out due to "system state changed" every 30 > seconds if reservations use REPLACE or REPLACE_DOWN flags. > -- slurmrestd - Make sure that scheduler_unset parameter defaults to true even > when the following flags are also set: show_duplicates, skip_steps, > disable_truncate_usage_time, run_away_jobs, whole_hetjob, > disable_whole_hetjob, disable_wait_for_result, usage_time_as_submit_time, > show_batch_script, and or show_job_environment. Additionaly, always make > sure show_duplicates and disable_truncate_usage_time default to true when > the following flags are also set: scheduler_unset, scheduled_on_submit, > scheduled_by_main, scheduled_by_backfill, and or job_started. This effects > the following endpoints: > 'GET /slurmdb/v0.0.40/jobs' > 'GET /slurmdb/v0.0.41/jobs' > -- Ignore --json and --yaml options for scontrol show config to prevent mixing > output types. > -- Fix not considering nodes in reservations with Maintenance or Overlap flags > when creating new reservations with nodecnt or when they replace down nodes. > -- Fix suspending/resuming steps running under a 23.02 slurmstepd process. > -- Fix options like sprio --me and squeue --me for users with a uid greater > than 2147483647. > -- fatal() if BlockSizes=0. This value is invalid and would otherwise cause the > slurmctld to crash. > -- sacctmgr - Fix issue where clearing out a preemption list using > preempt='' would cause the given qos to no longer be preempt-able until set > again. > -- Fix stepmgr creating job steps concurrently. > -- data_parser/v0.0.40 - Avoid dumping "Infinity" for NO_VAL tagged "number" > fields. > -- data_parser/v0.0.41 - Avoid dumping "Infinity" for NO_VAL tagged "number" > fields. > -- slurmctld - Fix a potential leak while updating a reservation. > -- slurmctld - Fix state save with reservation flags when a update fails. > -- Fix reservation update issues with parameters Accounts and Users, when > using +/- signs. > -- slurmrestd - Don't dump warning on empty wckeys in: > 'GET /slurmdb/v0.0.40/config' > 'GET /slurmdb/v0.0.41/config' > -- Fix slurmd possibly leaving zombie processes on start up in configless when > the initial attempt to fetch the config fails. > -- Fix crash when trying to drain a non-existing node (possibly deleted > before). > -- slurmctld - fix segfault when calculating limit decay for jobs with an > invalid association. > -- Fix IPMI energy gathering with multiple sensors. > -- data_parser/v0.0.39 - Remove xassert requiring errors and warnings to have a > source string. > -- slurmrestd - Prevent potential segfault when there is an error parsing an > array field which could lead to a double xfree. This applies to several > endpoints in data_parser v0.0.39, v0.0.40 and v0.0.41. > -- scancel - Fix a regression from 23.11.6 where using both the --ctld and > --sibling options would cancel the federated job on all clusters instead of > only the cluster(s) specified by --sibling. > -- accounting_storage/mysql - Fix bug when removing an association > specified with an empty partition. > -- Fix setting multiple partition state restore on a job correctly. > -- Fix difference in behavior when swapping partition order in job submission. > -- Fix security issue in stepmgr that could permit an attacker to execute > processes under other users' jobs. CVE-2024-48936. [View Less]

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HOST CPUs not used by jobs
by Bhaskar Chakraborty 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

I have a SLURM configuration of 2 hosts with 6 + 4 CPUs. I am submitting jobs with sbatch -n <CPU slots> <job script>. However, I see that even when I have exhausted all 10 CPU slots for the running jobs it's still allowing subsequent jobs to run ! The CPU slots availability is also show as full for the 2 hosts. No job is found pending. What could be problem? My Slurm.conf looks like (host names are changed to generic): ClusterName=MyClusterControlMachine=host1ControlAddr=<some … [View More]

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