[slurm-users] draining nodes due to failed killing of task?

[Adrian Sevcenco]

On 8/6/21 1:56 PM, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> We had a similar problem some time ago (slow creation of big core files) and solved it by increasing the Slurm timeouts
oh, i see.. well, in principle i should not have core files, and i do not find any...

> to the point that even the slowest core wouldn't trigger it. Then, once the need for core files was over, I disabled 
> core files and restored the timeouts.
and how much did you increased them? i have
SlurmctldTimeout=300
SlurmdTimeout=300

Thank you!
Adrian


> 
> Il 06/08/2021 12:46, Adrian Sevcenco ha scritto:
>> On 8/6/21 1:27 PM, Diego Zuccato wrote:
>>> Hi.
>> Hi!
>>
>>> Might it be due to a timeout (maybe the killed job is creating a core file, or caused heavy swap usage)?
>> i will have to search for culprit ..
>> the problem is why would the node be put in drain for the reason of failed killing? and how can i control/disable
>> this?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>>>
>>> BYtE,
>>>   Diego
>>>
>>> Il 06/08/2021 09:02, Adrian Sevcenco ha scritto:
>>>> Having just implemented some triggers i just noticed this:
>>>>
>>>> NODELIST    NODES PARTITION       STATE CPUS    S:C:T MEMORY TMP_DISK WEIGHT AVAIL_FE REASON
>>>> alien-0-47      1    alien*    draining   48   48:1:1 193324 214030      1 rack-0,4 Kill task failed
>>>> alien-0-56      1    alien*     drained   48   48:1:1 193324 214030      1 rack-0,4 Kill task failed
>>>>
>>>> i was wondering why a node is drained when killing of task fails and how can i disable it? (i use cgroups)
>>>> moreover, how can the killing of task fails? (this is on slurm 19.05)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Adrian
>>>>