[slurm-users] Re: Manually initiating a DB purge

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-p...

IHTH, Ole