[slurm-users] job_time_limit: inactivity time limit reached ...

[Chris Samuel]

On 19/9/22 05:46, Paul Raines wrote:

> In slurm.conf I had InactiveLimit=60 which I guess is what is happening
> but my reading of the docs on this setting was it only affects the
> starting of a job with srun/salloc and not a job that has been running
> for days.  Is it InactiveLimit that leads to the "inactivity time limit 
> reached" message?

I believe so, but remember that this governs timeouts around 
communications between slurmctld and the srun/salloc commands, and not 
things like shell inactivity timeouts which are quite different.

See:

https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#purge

# A job is considered inactive if it has no active job steps or
# if the srun command creating the job is not responding.

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Chris
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