[slurm-users] can't lengthen my jobs log

[Erik Bryer]

That worked pretty well in that I got more data than I ever have before by a lot. It only goes back about 18 days, but I'm not sure why. The slurmdbd.conf back then contained no directives on retaining logs, which is supposed to mean it defaults to retaining them indefinitely. On another test cluster it shows records back 2 days, which is about when I started fiddling with the settings. Could that have wiped the previous records, if they existed, or have my changes started the saving of older data. Still, this is progress.

Erik
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Subject: Re: [slurm-users] can't lengthen my jobs log

Hi John,

Have you tried specifying a start time?  The default is 00:00:00 of the current day (depending on other options).  Example:

sacct -S 2020-11-01T00:00:00

Our accounting database retains all job data from the epoch of our system.

Best,

Sebastian

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Subject: [slurm-users] can't lengthen my jobs log

Hi,

My jobs database empties after about 1 day. "sacct -a" returns no results. I've tried to lengthen that, but have been unsuccessful. I've tried adding the following to slurmdbd.conf and restarting slurmdbd:
ArchiveJobs=yes
PurgeEventAfter=1month
PurgeJobAfter=12month
PurgeResvAfter=1month
PurgeStepAfter=1month
PurgeSuspendAfter=1month
PurgeTXNAfter=12month
PurgeUsageAfter=24month
No job archives appear (in the default /tmp dir) either. What I'd like to do is have the slurm database retain information on jobs for at least a few weeks, writing out data beyond that threshold to files, but mainly I just want to keep job data in the database for longer.

Regards,
John
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