[slurm-users] sbatch overallocation

Max Quast max at quast.de
Thu Oct 29 11:03:53 UTC 2020


Okay, thanks for the hint that I should use cgroups.

With cgroups the behaviour is as expected.

 

:)

Max

 

> Il 10/10/20 18:53, Renfro, Michael ha scritto:

> 

> >   * Do you want to ensure that one job requesting 9 tasks (and 1 CPU per

> >     task) can’t overstep its reservation and take resources away from

> >     other jobs on those nodes? Cgroups [1] should be able to confine the

> >     job to its 9 CPUs, and even if 8 processes get started at once in

> >     the job, they’ll only drive up the nodes’ load average, and not

> >     affect others’ performance.

> IMHO cgroups is a must-have: each job is guaranteed to receive what it

> asks for, and no more. If it tries to use more, it just self-contends

> resources, w/o impacting other jobs.

> Configuring it greatly reduced headaches on our cluster :)

> 

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