On Friday, May 29th, 2026 at 17:00, Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:
On 5/29/26 09:40, Kevin Buckley (Pawsey) via slurm-users wrote:
On Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 at 17:53, Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:
The safe way to enable the new purge parameters is to introduce them very gradually, for example:
PurgeJobScriptAfter=2000days PurgeJobEnvAfter=2000days
and lower the values little by little over time (restarting slurmdbd each time).
Do you mean to start off with a value of 2000 days?
Yes, 2000 days purging interval would do no harm and ensure that you don't overload the slurmdbd server with database operations, so it's good for an initial test where you check the slurmdbd performance over a couple of days where daily purging takes place.
I have an extended discussion of Slurm database purging in this Wiki page: https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_database/#setting-database-p... ...
Would you agree on these considerations?
So there's an assumption there that one is starting with a database that has entries that are over 2000 days old? In which case, given that context, yes. Regards, Kevin Buckley