[slurm-users] Slurm versions 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11 are now available (CVE-2025-43904)

2025-05-07 Thread Tim Wickberg via slurm-users
Slurm versions 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11 are now available and include a fix for a recently discovered security issue. SchedMD customers were informed on April 23rd and provided a patch on request; this process is documented in our security policy. [1] A mistake with permission handling fo

[slurm-users] Re: Lots of RPC calls and REQUEST_GETPW calls

2025-05-07 Thread Patryk Bełzak via slurm-users
Getting back the original question - I just noticed that there is special option AuditRPCs in DebugFlags for controller, so perhaps you can determine source of RPC calls without breaking things. https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm.conf.html#OPT_AuditRPCs Regards Patryk. On 25/05/07 10:47AM, Patryk

[slurm-users] Re: Lots of RPC calls and REQUEST_GETPW calls

2025-05-07 Thread Patryk Bełzak via slurm-users
> IMHO the RPC rate limiting should be considered a best practice, and I > wouldn't think that it's a "dirty" configuration. You need Slurm 23.02 or > later for this. Some details are discussed in this Wiki page: Dirty in a way that levels are so low that they break some other service in order t

[slurm-users] Re: Lots of RPC calls and REQUEST_GETPW calls

2025-05-07 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users
On 5/7/25 10:28, Guillaume COCHARD wrote: Hi, Speaking of RPC rate limiting, we recently encountered an issue with Snakemake making excessive requests to sacct. It seems that the current rate limiting only applies to controller RPCs. Is there a way to also limit the rate of sacct calls? The

[slurm-users] Re: Lots of RPC calls and REQUEST_GETPW calls

2025-05-07 Thread Guillaume COCHARD via slurm-users
Hi, Speaking of RPC rate limiting, we recently encountered an issue with Snakemake making excessive requests to sacct. It seems that the current rate limiting only applies to controller RPCs. Is there a way to also limit the rate of sacct calls? Thanks, Guillaume - Mail original - De:

[slurm-users] Re: Lots of RPC calls and REQUEST_GETPW calls

2025-05-07 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users
On 5/7/25 09:57, Patryk Bełzak via slurm-users wrote: Hi, why you think it's an authentication requests? As far as I understand multiple UIDs are asking for job and partition info. It's unlikely that all of them perform that kind of requests the same way and in the same time, so I think you sh

[slurm-users] Re: Lots of RPC calls and REQUEST_GETPW calls

2025-05-07 Thread Patryk Bełzak via slurm-users
Hi, why you think it's an authentication requests? As far as I understand multiple UIDs are asking for job and partition info. It's unlikely that all of them perform that kind of requests the same way and in the same time, so I think you should look for some external program that may do that - i

[slurm-users] Re: Large memory jobs stuck Pending. Should use --time parameter?

2025-05-07 Thread Loris Bennett via slurm-users
Mike via slurm-users writes: > Greetings, > > We are new to Slurm and we are trying to better understand why we’re seeing > high-mem jobs stuck in Pending state indefinitely. Smaller (mem) jobs in the > queue will continue to pass by the high mem jobs even when we bump priority > on a pending hi