[slurm-users] How to deal with user running stuff in frontend node?

[Bill Barth]

We kick them off and lock them out until they respond. Disconnections are common enough that it doesn’t always get their attention. Inability to log back in always does. 

Best,
Bill. 

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> On Feb 15, 2018, at 9:25 AM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at math.utexas.edu> wrote:
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> The simple solution is to tell people not to do this -- that's what I do. And if that doesn't work threaten to kick them off the system.
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>> On 02/15/2018 09:11 AM, Manuel Rodríguez Pascual wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Although this is not strictly related to Slurm, maybe you can recommend me some actions to deal with a particular user.
>> On our small cluster, currently there are no limits to run applications in the frontend. This is sometimes really useful for some users, for example to have scripts monitoring the execution of jobs and taking decisions depending on the partial results.
>> However, we have this user that keeps abusing this system: when the job queue is long and there is a significant time wait, he sometimes runs his jobs on the frontend, resulting on a CPU load of 100% and some delays on using it for the things it is supposed to serve (user login, monitoring and so).
>> Have you faced the same issue?  Is there any solution? I am thinking about using ulimit to limit the execution time of this jobs in the frontend to 5 minutes or so. This however does not look so elegant as other users can perform the sabe abuse on the future, and he should also be able to run low cpu-consuming jobs for a longer period. However I am not an experienced sysadmin so I am completely open to suggestions or different ways of facing this issue.
>> Any thoughts?
>> cheers,
>> Manuel
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