Re: [slurm-users] Upgrading a slurm on a cluster, 17.02 --> 18.08

2018-09-25 Thread Paul Edmon
I use rpm's for our installs here.  I usually pause all the jobs prior to the upgrade, then I follow the guide here: https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html I haven't done the upgrade to 18.08 though yet, and so I haven't had to contend with the automatic restart that seems to be the

Re: [slurm-users] Upgrading a slurm on a cluster, 17.02 --> 18.08

2018-09-25 Thread Baker D . J .
Thank you for your comments. I could potentially force the upgrade of the slurm and slurm-slumdbd rpms using something like: rpm -Uvh --noscripts --nodeps --force slurm-18.08.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm slurm-slurmdbd-18.08.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm That will certainly work, however the slurmctld (or in the ca

Re: [slurm-users] Upgrading a slurm on a cluster, 17.02 --> 18.08

2018-09-25 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 9:41:10 PM AEST Baker D. J. wrote: > I guess that the only solution is to upgrade all the slurm at once. That > means that the slurmctld will be killed (unless it has been stopped first). We don't use RPMs from Slurm [1], but the rpm command does have a --noscripts

[slurm-users] Tiered RAM and Swap Space

2018-09-25 Thread John Hearns
We recently had a very good discussion on swap space and job suspension. I had a look at the Intel pages on Optane memory. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-optane-technology.html It is definitely being positioned as a fast file cache, ie for block oriented d

Re: [slurm-users] Renaming a Reservation

2018-09-25 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 1:54:19 PM AEST Kevin Buckley wrote: > Is there a way to rename a Reservation ? I've never come across a way to do that, I've just had to delete and recreate. Sorry Kevin! -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

[slurm-users] Upgrading a slurm on a cluster, 17.02 --> 18.08

2018-09-25 Thread Baker D . J .
Hello, I wondered if I could compare notes with other community members who have upgraded slurm on their cluster. We are currently running slurm v17.02 and I understand that the rpm mix/structure changed at v17.11. We are, by the way, planning to upgrade to v18.08. I gather that I should upg