[slurm-users] srun --mem issue

[Kilian Cavalotti]

Hi Loris,

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:59 AM Loris Bennett
<loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> However, I do have a chronic problem with users requesting too much
> memory. My approach has been to try to get people to use 'seff' to see
> what resources their jobs in fact need.  In addition each month we
> generate a graphical summary of 'seff' data for each user, like the one
> shown here
>
>   https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/high-performance-computing/Dokumentation/Statistik
>
> and automatically send an email to those with a large percentage of
> resource-inefficient jobs telling them to look at their graphs and
> correct their resource requirements for future jobs.

That's a very clever approach, and the graphs look awesome!
Would you be willing to share the scripts you're using to generate
those reports? That sounds like something many sites could benefit
from!

Cheers,
--
Kilian