[slurm-users] What is the 2^32-1 values in "stepd_connect to <jobid>.4294967295 failed" telling you

[Christopher Samuel]

On 3/8/19 12:25 AM, Kevin Buckley wrote:

> error: stepd_connect to <jobid>.1 failed: No such file or directory
> error: stepd_connect to <jobid>.4294967295 failed: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> We can imagine why a job that got killed in step 0 might still be looking
> for the <jobid>.1 step but the <jobid>.2^32-1 is beyond our imagination.

That's the internal representation of the extern step from memory.

All the best,
Chris
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