[slurm-users] sshare RawUsage vs sreport usage

[Stephan Schott]

For the record, the issue seemed to be related to a low CPUs weight in
TRESBillingWeights being applied to different partitions. Removing it or
increasing the value made the accounting work again for all users.

El mié., 26 ago. 2020 a las 17:54, Stephan Schott (<schottve at hhu.de>)
escribió:

> Still stuck with this; maybe this gives an idea to someone. Tried
> resetting the RawUsage by forcing slurm to regenerate assoc_usage, and
> though the file was generated, the RawUsage for all users now is stuck in
> 0. This makes me think there is a communication problem with slurmdbd
> (which through sreport still reports things ok btw)? Tried changing the IP
> address as suggested in this related problem (
> https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-users/2020-March/005051.html),
> but nothing. Both slurmctld and slurmdbd have been restarted. Any ideas?
>
> El jue., 20 ago. 2020 a las 10:36, Stephan Schott (<schottve at hhu.de>)
> escribió:
>
>> Hi fellow Slurm users,
>> We are facing the following issue in Slurm 18.08 of Ubuntu Bionic (a
>> Qlustar cluster). For the last 2+ months, one of our users has been using
>> the queue intensively, using array jobs to handle his work. Now, the
>> problem there is that for some reason his RawUsage hasn't increased (and is
>> in fact close to 0), and hence his Fairshare factor is mistakenly high. The
>> curious thing of it all is that the usage reported in sreport fits
>> quite well with what we have seen in the last weeks.
>> What can cause this kind of discrepancy? All users are configured in the
>> same way, and are using more or less the same partitions. The only
>> difference I saw was the usage of array jobs instead of normal batch jobs,
>> but I have no idea why that would cause differences; we are now running
>> some tests to check if that is actually the case.
>> Any ideas are welcome,
>>
>> --
>> Stephan Schott Verdugo
>> Biochemist
>>
>> Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
>> Institut fuer Pharm. und Med. Chemie
>> Universitaetsstr. 1
>> 40225 Duesseldorf
>> Germany
>>
>
>
> --
> Stephan Schott Verdugo
> Biochemist
>
> Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
> Institut fuer Pharm. und Med. Chemie
> Universitaetsstr. 1
> 40225 Duesseldorf
> Germany
>


-- 
Stephan Schott Verdugo
Biochemist

Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
Institut fuer Pharm. und Med. Chemie
Universitaetsstr. 1
40225 Duesseldorf
Germany
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