[slurm-users] spart: A user-oriented partition info command for slurm

[mercan]

Hi;

The multi partition bug was fixed. Data collection and output parts of 
the code are now separated. This release is tagged as v0.1.

If you tried the spart command, I would be grateful if you send me the 
output of  the "./spart -m" command in your cluster, so  I can see how 
it works in different environments.

Thank you;

Ahmet M.


On 28.03.2019 16:03, Jeffrey Frey wrote:
> Just FYI, there's one minor issue with spart:  for pending jobs, the 
> "partition" parameter can be a comma-separated list of partitions and 
> not just a single partition name
>
>
>     If  the  job  can use more than one partition, specify their names
>     in a comma separate list and the one
>     offering earliest initiation will be used with no regard given to
>     the partition name ordering (although
>     higher  priority partitions will be considered first).  When the
>     job is initiated, the name of the par‐
>     tition used will be placed first in the job record partition string.
>
>
>
> So the code that identifies to which partition a pending job belongs 
> may not work properly:
>
>
>     strncmp(
>     part_buffer_ptr->partition_array[j].name,
>     job_buffer_ptr->job_array[i].partition,
>     strlen (part_buffer_ptr->partition_array[j].name)) == 0
>
>
>
> This can also produce incorrect matches if a cluster has partitions 
> with overlapping names:  e.g. for a job requesting partition 
> "large_smp" the code above would evaluate to true for a partition 
> named "large".  And if the user had requested
>
>
>     sbatch --partition small --partition medium --partition large ...
>
>
>
> then it would only include the pending CPU counts on the "small" 
> partition.
>
>
> If your cluster has no overlap between partition names and users do 
> not submit jobs against multiple partitions, the program will work fine.
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 5:51 AM, mercan <ahmet.mercan at uhem.itu.edu.tr 
>> <mailto:ahmet.mercan at uhem.itu.edu.tr>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>> Except sjstat script, Slurm does not contains a command to show 
>> user-oriented partition info. I wrote a command. I hope you will find 
>> it useful.
>>
>> https://github.com/mercanca/spart
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ahmet M.
>>
>>
>>
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