[slurm-users] Timeout and Epilogue

Alex Chekholko alex at calicolabs.com
Mon Dec 9 20:56:21 UTC 2019


I had found some inconsistent behavior with the epilog that I didn't
understand, but we worked around it at our site and didn't follow up.
https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6911

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 11:58 AM Brian Andrus <toomuchit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Absolutely, which we do, however it is difficult to simulate all the
> possible job failures/ending/cancellations in 2 minutes or at all for some
> things.
>
> So we post on the forums both to see if this has been found out and to
> draw attention to the fact that the documentation could be improved by
> adding a bit of clarification.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 12/9/2019 10:10 AM, Riebs, Andy wrote:
>
> At the risk of stating the obvious… these seem like the sort of questions
> that could be answered with a 2 minute test. Better yet, not just answered,
> but with answers specific to your configuration J
>
>
>
> *From:* slurm-users [mailto:slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com
> <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com>] *On Behalf Of *Alex Chekholko
> *Sent:* Monday, December 9, 2019 12:53 PM
> *To:* Slurm User Community List <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
> <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [slurm-users] Timeout and Epilogue
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I had asked a similar question recently (maybe a year ago) and also got
> crickets.  I think in our case we were not able to ensure that the epilog
> always ran for different types of job failures, so we just had the users
> add some more cleanup code to the end of their jobs _and_ also run separate
> cleanup jobs.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 7:29 PM Brian Andrus <toomuchit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Quick question:
>
> Is the epilogue script run if a job exceeds its time limits and is being
> canceled?
>
> What about just cancelled?
>
> I need to be able to clean up some job-specific files regardless of how
> the job ends and I'm not sure epilogue is sufficient.
>
> Brian Andrus
>
>
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