[slurm-users] ulimit in sbatch script

[Mahmood Naderan]

That parameter is used in slurm.conf. Should I modify that only on the
head node? Or all nodes? Then should I restart slurm processes?

Regards,
Mahmood




On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 7:23:40 PM AEST Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>
>> [hamid at rocks7 case1_source2]$  scontrol show config | fgrep VSizeFactor
>> VSizeFactor             = 110 percent
>
> Great, I think that's the cause of the limit you are seeing..
>
>        VSizeFactor
>               Memory  specifications in job requests apply to real memory size
>               (also known as resident set size). It  is  possible  to  enforce
>               virtual  memory  limits  for both jobs and job steps by limiting
>               their virtual memory to some percentage  of  their  real  memory
>               allocation. The VSizeFactor parameter specifies the job's or job
>               step's virtual memory limit as a percentage of its  real  memory
>               limit.  For  example,  if a job's real memory limit is 500MB and
>               VSizeFactor is set to 101 then the job will  be  killed  if  its
>               real  memory  exceeds  500MB or its virtual memory exceeds 505MB
>               (101 percent of the real memory limit).  The default value is 0,
>               which  disables enforcement of virtual memory limits.  The value
>               may not exceed 65533 percent.
>
> Setting it to 0 should make that limit go away.
>
> All the best,
> Chris
> --
>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
>
>