[slurm-users] Re: Is SWAP memory mandatory for SLURM

Joseph,

You will likely get many perspectives on this. I disable swap completely on our compute nodes. I can be draconian that way. For the workflow supported, this works and is a good thing. Other workflows may benefit from swap.

Brian Andrus

On 3/3/2024 11:04 PM, John Joseph via slurm-users wrote:

Dear All, Good morning I do have a 4 node SLURM instance up and running. Like to know if I disable the SWAP memory, will it effect the SLURM performance Is SWAP a mandatory requirement, I have each node more RAM, if my phsicall RAM is more, is there any need for the SWAP thanks Joseph John