[slurm-users] swap size

[Christopher Samuel]

On 24/09/18 00:46, Raymond Wan wrote:

> Hmmmmmm, I'm way out of my comfort zone but I am curious about what 
> happens.  Unfortunately, I don't think I'm able to read kernel code, but 
> someone here 
> (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31946854/how-does-sigstop-work-in-linux-kernel) 
> seems to suggest that SIGSTOP and SIGCONT moves a process 
> between the runnable and waiting queues.

SIGSTOP is a non-catchable signal that immediately stops a process from
running, and so it will sit there until either resumed, killed or the
system is rebooted. :-)

It's like doing ^Z in the shell (which generates SIGTSTP) but isn't
catchable via signal handlers, so you can't do anything about it (same
as SIGKILL).

Regarding memory, yes its memory is still used until the process
either resume and releases it or is killed.  This is why if you want
to do preemption in this mode you'll want swap so that the kernel has
somewhere to page out the memory it's using to for the incoming
process(es).

Hope that helps!

All the best,
Chris
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