[slurm-users] More cpus blocked than booked

[René Neumaier]

Dear Christoph,

On 13.09.19 11:33, Christoph Brüning wrote:
> this seems actually to be related to hyperthreading on Intel CPUs. We
> see the same behaviour on our Xeon Gold 6134 Nodes running Slurm 17.11.
> 
> The Slurm FAQ ( https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#cpu_count ) states:
> "Note that even on systems with hyperthreading enabled, the resources
> will generally be allocated to jobs at the level of a core. Two
> different jobs will not share a core except through the use of a
> partition OverSubscribe configuration parameter. For example, a job
> requesting resources for three tasks on a node with ThreadsPerCore=2
> will be allocated two full cores."

this was very helpful.
Thanks a lot for your feedback and the corresponding information.
Then we just hadn't noticed this so far and most of the time the AMD
Opterons will have been used for this.

Everything is ok.


Best,
René

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