[slurm-users] srun --mem issue

[Loris Bennett]

Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu> writes:

>> On Dec 8, 2022, at 21:30, Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.work at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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!
>
> Agreed, same.

Thanks for the interest.  I am certainly interested in sharing my code,
so I shall look into doing that, although I can't promise anything
before the end of the year.

Cheers,

Loris

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