[slurm-users] [EXT] --mem is not limiting the job's memory

[Boris Yazlovitsky]

thank you Vlad - looks like we have the same yes's
Do you remember if you had to make any settings on the OS level or in the
kernel to make it work?

-b

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 5:31 PM Ozeryan, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Ozeryan at jhuapl.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
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> We have the following configured and it seems to be working ok.
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> CgroupAutomount=yes
> ConstrainCores=yes
> ConstrainDevices=yes
> ConstrainRAMSpace=yes
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> Vlad.
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> Hello Vladimir, thank you for your response.
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> this is the cgroups.conf file:
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> CgroupAutomount=yes
> ConstrainCores=yes
> ConstrainDevices=yes
> ConstrainRAMSpace=yes
> ConstrainSwapSpace=yes
> MaxRAMPercent=90
> AllowedSwapSpace=0
> AllowedRAMSpace=100
> MemorySwappiness=0
> MaxSwapPercent=0
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> /etc/default/grub:
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> GRUB_DEFAULT=0
> GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 cgroup_enable=memory
> swapaccount=1"
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> what other cgroup settings need to be set?
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> && thank you!
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> -b
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> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 4:02 PM Ozeryan, Vladimir <
> Vladimir.Ozeryan at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
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> --mem=5G. Should allocate 5G of memory per node.
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> Are your cgroups configured?
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> *Boris Yazlovitsky
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> Running slurm 22.03.02 on Ubunutu 22.04 server.
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> Jobs submitted with --mem=5g are able to allocate an unlimited amount of
> memory.
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> how to limit on the job submission level how much memory it can grab?
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> thanks, and best regards!
> Boris
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