Re: [slurm-users] [Slurm 18.08.4] sacct/seff Inaccurate usercpu on Job Arrays

2018-12-21 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
So this issue is occurring only with job arrays. — Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167 On 12/21/18, 12:15 PM, "slurm-users on behalf of Chance Bryce Carl Nelson" wrote: Hi folks, calling sacct with the usercpu flag enable

Re: [slurm-users] [Slurm 18.08.4] sacct/seff Inaccurate usercpu on Job Arrays

2018-12-21 Thread Sam Hawarden
Hi Chance, Can you check your slurm.conf's TaskPlugin and TaskPluginParam? or cgroup settings. The tasks may not even be constrained to a group of cores. The 00:02:16 core-walltime seems odd though as you've set each job for 40 cpu minutes (20 minutes * 2 cores) Are you using a debug partitio

[slurm-users] [Slurm 18.08.4] sacct/seff Inaccurate usercpu on Job Arrays

2018-12-21 Thread Chance Bryce Carl Nelson
Hi folks, calling sacct with the usercpu flag enabled seems to provide cpu times far above expected values for job array indices. This is also reported by seff. For example, executing the following job script: #!/bin/bash #SBATCH --job-name

Re: [slurm-users] Lua Job Submit - Setting Features/Constraints

2018-12-21 Thread Kevin Manalo
Hi Bill and Douglas, Thanks for your tips - I narrowed down the issue to the fact that only one partition (a default partition) string is available, in all other cases it is not there, so the condition I'm targeting (job_desc[‘partition’] == "parallel") does not happen, and I don't know the re

Re: [slurm-users] Accounting: Default Associations for Unknown Accounts

2018-12-21 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
Hi Ulf, On 12/20/18 11:45 PM, Ulf wrote: Hello, we think about switch to SLURM. Currently we grant access to the cluster using a active directory group, everyone in this group is allowed to run jobs. So the users are not known to the SLURM accounting database. Is it possible to automatically

Re: [slurm-users] Accounting: Default Associations for Unknown Accounts

2018-12-21 Thread Ulf
Hello all,   thank you very much for your answers. So there is no out of the box solution, I thought I missed something. From the answers I get the impression that some of you are facing similar challenges. So in case we want to start using slurm we have to either change our process or build a