[slurm-users] Slurm version 22.05.6 is now available

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

FYI: The Slurm download page is as usual: 
https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php

/Ole

On 11/10/22 22:49, Marshall Garey wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 22.05.6.
> 
> This includes a fix to core selection for steps which could result in 
> random task launch failures, alongside a number of other moderate severity 
> issues.
> 
> - Marshall
> 
> -- 
> Marshall Garey
> Release Management, Support, and Development
> SchedMD LLC - Commercial Slurm Development and Support
> 
>> * Changes in Slurm 22.05.6
>> ==========================
>>  -- Fix a partition's DisableRootJobs=no from preventing root jobs from 
>> working.
>>  -- Fix the number of allocated cpus for an auto-adjustment case in 
>> which the
>>     job requests --ntasks-per-node and --mem (per-node) but the limit is
>>     MaxMemPerCPU.
>>  -- Fix POWER_DOWN_FORCE request leaving node in completing state.
>>  -- Do not count magnetic reservation queue records towards backfill 
>> limits.
>>  -- Clarify error message when --send-libs=yes or BcastParameters=send_libs
>>     fails to identify shared library files, and avoid creating an empty
>>     "<filename>_libs" directory on the target filesystem.
>>  -- Fix missing CoreSpec on dynamic nodes upon slurmctld restart.
>>  -- Fix node state reporting when using specialized cores.
>>  -- Fix number of CPUs allocated if --cpus-per-gpu used.
>>  -- Add flag ignore_prefer_validation to not validate --prefer on a job.
>>  -- Fix salloc/sbatch SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE output environment variable 
>> when the
>>     number of tasks is not requested.
>>  -- Permit using wildcard magic cookies with X11 forwarding.
>>  -- cgroup/v2 - Add check for swap when running OOM check after task
>>     termination.
>>  -- Fix deadlock caused by race condition when disabling power save with a
>>     reconfigure.
>>  -- Fix memory leak in the dbd when container is sent to the database.
>>  -- openapi/dbv0.0.38 - correct dbv0.0.38_tres_info.
>>  -- Fix node SuspendTime, SuspendTimeout, ResumeTimeout being updated after
>>     altering partition node lists with scontrol.
>>  -- jobcomp/elasticsearch - fix data_t memory leak after serialization.
>>  -- Fix issue where '*' wasn't accepted in gpu/cpu bind.
>>  -- Fix SLURM_GPUS_ON_NODE for shared GPU gres (MPS, shards).
>>  -- Add SLURM_SHARDS_ON_NODE environment variable for shards.
>>  -- Fix srun error with overcommit.
>>  -- Fix bug in core selection for the default cyclic distribution of tasks
>>     across sockets, that resulted in random task launch failures.
>>  -- Fix core selection for steps requesting multiple tasks per core when
>>     allocation contains more cores than required for step.
>>  -- gpu/nvml - Fix MIG minor number generation when GPU minor number
>>     (/dev/nvidia[minor_number]) and index (as seen in nvidia-smi) do not 
>> match.
>>  -- Fix accrue time underflow errors after slurmctld reconfig or restart.
>>  -- Surpress errant errors from prolog_complete about being unable to 
>> locate
>>     "node:(null)".
>>  -- Fix issue where shards were selected from multiple gpus and failed to
>>     allocate.
>>  -- Fix step cpu count calculation when using --ntasks-per-gpu=.
>>  -- Fix overflow problems when validating array index parameters in 
>> slurmctld
>>     and prevent a potential condition causing slurmctld to crash.
>>  -- Remove dependency on json-c in slurmctld when running with power 
>> saving.
>>     Only the new "SLURM_RESUME_FILE" support relies on this, and it will be
>>     disabled if json-c support is unavailable instead.