[slurm-users] [External] Re: safe to delete old QOSes?

[Prentice Bisbal]

> I've just done that on one of my test systems - and it's not deleting 
> a no longer used QoS, but 'renaming' the most used one. So plenty of 
> test jobs that used it in the database :) 


Can you elaborate on what you mean by "renaming"?

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Prentice


On 4/19/21 8:55 AM, Tina Friedrich wrote:
> Hi Prentice,
>
> I've just done that on one of my test systems - and it's not deleting 
> a no longer used QoS, but 'renaming' the most used one. So plenty of 
> test jobs that used it in the database :)
>
> Removing it from the cluster has not modified the entries in sacct, as 
> far as I can tell - they still have the QoS listed they were run as, 
> regardless of that existing in the cluster or not.
>
> Not that that's an 'official' answer (I'd like one of those as well :) 
> ), but at least it looks as if it shouldn't be an issue, from my 
> limited testing.
>
> Tina
>
> On 17/04/2021 04:31, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>> This is a simple question that I don't think is in the documentation:
>>
>> What happens to accounting records if you delete old QOSes that 
>> aren't used anymore? Will that affect the records for jobs that used 
>> those QOSes in the sacct database? I'm assuming it wouldn't, but I 
>> figured it safe to ask questions first and shoot later.
>>
>