[slurm-users] Rate Limiting of RPC calls

[Kevin Buckley]

On 2021/02/10 09:33, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> 
> Also getting users to use `sacct` rather than `squeue` to check what
> state a job is in can help a lot too, it reduces the load on slurmctld.

That raises an interesting take on the two utilities, Chris,
in that

1) It should be possible to write a wrapper, or even a binary,
    that gives the user the squeue format using the API calls
    which sacct targets, for a subset of squeue functionality ?

2) How much of the functionality of squeue would be lost if
    SchedMD had only provided an "sacct with squeue formatting"
    and how much of the lost functionality would really be
    missed?
    
Kevin
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Supercomputing Systems Administrator
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre