[slurm-users] how can users start their worker daemons using srun?

[Brian W. Johanson]

On 08/29/2018 04:59 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 August 2018 12:45:51 AM AEST Brian W. Johanson wrote:
>
>> In your example, you do not have enough memory for both sruns at the same
>> time.
> Nice spot, I think I was thinking in mem-per-task (which doesn't exist) then!
>
> Unfortunately fixing it doesn't seem to resolve the issue, both these changed
> versions have the same result:
>
> ---------------8< snip snip 8<---------------
> #!/bin/bash
> #SBATCH -n2
> #SBATCH -c2
> #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=4g
>
> srun -n1 --mem-per-cpu=500m sleep 5 &
> srun -n1 --mem-per-cpu=1g hostname
> ---------------8< snip snip 8<---------------
>
> john1
> srun: Job 1244182 step creation temporarily disabled, retrying
>
> ---------------8< snip snip 8<---------------
> #!/bin/bash
> #SBATCH -n2
> #SBATCH -c2
> #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=4g
>
> srun -n1 --mem-per-cpu=250m sleep 5 &
> srun -n1 --mem-per-cpu=500m hostname
> ---------------8< snip snip 8<---------------
>
> john1
> srun: Job 1244183 step creation temporarily disabled, retrying
> srun: Step created for job 1244183
>
> All the best,
> Chris

That's interesting,  those examples work for me on 17.11.7, I am not sure what's 
stopping you now.
-b