[slurm-users] Rate Limiting of RPC calls

[Kota Tsuyuzaki]

Thanks Guys!

All information is valuable. I'll look up our setting and try to tune our Slurm cluster to get higher performance.

Best,
Kota

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露崎　浩太 (Kota Tsuyuzaki)
kota.tsuyuzaki.pc at hco.ntt.co.jp
NTTソフトウェアイノベーションセンタ
分散処理基盤技術プロジェクト
0422-59-2837
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Kevin Buckley
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 11:32 AM
> To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>; Christopher Samuel <chris at csamuel.org>
> Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Rate Limiting of RPC calls
> 
> 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
> --
> Supercomputing Systems Administrator
> Pawsey Supercomputing Centre