Hi Sid,

The slurmdbd triggers purges as explained in the Wiki page:

The purge operation is done at the start of each time interval (see
bug_4295), which means on the 1st day of the month in this example.
Monthly, daily or even hourly purge operations would occur when using
different time units for the same interval:

PurgeStepAfter=2months
PurgeStepAfter=60days
PurgeStepAfter=1440hours


So you have to wait for 1 day if you have set 1000days before seeing log
lines in slurmdbd.log.

/Ole

On 8/22/24 11:09, Sid Young wrote:
> Yep, done that today, I will check in the morning if any records
> disappeared overnight and then reduce again. Was hoping that I could
> trigger it and monitor the output.
>
> Sid
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, 18:11 Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users,
> <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com <mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sid,
>
>     On 8/22/24 02:04, Sid Young via slurm-users wrote:
>      > I have 3 years worth of job records in the slurm DB and we do not
>     have any
>      > need to actually track anything at this stage, I would like to keep
>      > 12months worth of jobs so I need to purge 2 years worth at some point..
>      >
>      > Is there a command to issue via scontrol to kick off a SlurmPurge
>     using
>      > the values in the slurmdbd.conf file (currently these are 1000days,
>     so I
>      > can see a few dozen records disappear before I shorten it to
>     365days in
>      > incremental steps).
>
>     You need to set database purge parameters in slurmdbd.conf, but do it in
>     increments first as explained in this Wiki page:
>     https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_database/#setting-database-purge-parameters <https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_database/#setting-database-purge-parameters>