[slurm-users] Resource LImits

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 20-04-2023 18:23, Hoot Thompson wrote:
> Ole,
> 
> Earlier I found your Slurm_tools posting and found it very useful. This 
> remains my problem, ‘current value’ not incrementing even after making 
> needed changes to slurm.conf.

The ‘current value’ refers to those jobs that are currently running. 
Does that answer your question?

/Ole

> ./showuserlimits -u ubuntu
> 
> scontrol -o show assoc_mgr users=ubuntu account=testing flags=Assoc
> 
> Association (Parent account):
> 
> ClusterName = dev-uid-testing
> 
> Account = testing
> 
> UserName =
> 
> Partition =
> 
> Priority = 0
> 
> ID = 6
> 
> SharesRaw/Norm/Level/Factor = 1/18446744073709551616.00/1/0.00
> 
> UsageRaw/Norm/Efctv = 0.00/1.00/0.00
> 
> ParentAccount = root, current value = 1
> 
> Lft = 2
> 
> DefAssoc = No
> 
> GrpJobs =
> 
> GrpJobsAccrue =
> 
> GrpSubmitJobs =
> 
> GrpWall =
> 
> GrpTRES =
> 
> cpu:Limit = 1500, current value = 0
> 
> GrpTRESMins =
> 
> GrpTRESRunMins =
> 
> MaxJobs =
> 
> MaxJobsAccrue =
> 
> MaxSubmitJobs =
> 
> MaxWallPJ =
> 
> MaxTRESPJ =
> 
> MaxTRESPN =
> 
> MaxTRESMinsPJ =
> 
> MinPrioThresh =
> 
> Association (User):
> 
> ClusterName = dev-uid-testing
> 
> Account = testing
> 
> UserName = ubuntu, UID=1000
> 
> Partition =
> 
> Priority = 0
> 
> ID = 9
> 
> SharesRaw/Norm/Level/Factor = 1/18446744073709551616.00/1/0.00
> 
> UsageRaw/Norm/Efctv = 0.00/1.00/0.00
> 
> ParentAccount =
> 
> Lft = 3
> 
> DefAssoc = Yes
> 
> GrpJobs =
> 
> GrpJobsAccrue =
> 
> GrpSubmitJobs =
> 
> GrpWall =
> 
> GrpTRES =
> 
> cpu:Limit = 1500, current value = 0
> 
> GrpTRESMins =
> 
> cpu:Limit = 1000, current value = 0
> 
> GrpTRESRunMins =
> 
> MaxJobs =
> 
> MaxJobsAccrue =
> 
> MaxSubmitJobs =
> 
> MaxWallPJ =
> 
> MaxTRESPJ =
> 
> MaxTRESPN =
> 
> MaxTRESMinsPJ =
> 
> MinPrioThresh =
> 
> Slurm share information:
> 
> AccountUserRawSharesNormSharesRawUsageEffectvUsageFairShare
> 
> -------------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------- 
> ------------- ----------
> 
> testingubuntu1 00.000000 0.000000
> 
> 
> 
> Clearly I’m still missing something or I don’t understand how it’s 
> supposed to work.
> 
> Hoot
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 20, 2023, at 2:10 AM, Ole Holm Nielsen 
>> <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hoot,
>>
>> On 4/20/23 00:15, Hoot Thompson wrote:
>>> Is there a ‘how to’ or recipe document for setting up and enforcing 
>>> resource limits? I can establish accounts, users, and set limits but 
>>> 'current value' is not incrementing after running jobs.
>>
>> I have written about resource limits in this Wiki page:
>> https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/Niflheim_system/Slurm_configuration/#partition-limits