Re: [slurm-users] Memory limit for user account

2018-03-17 Thread Chris Samuel
On Friday, 16 March 2018 10:20:34 PM AEDT Mahmood Naderan wrote: > But I get the following error as I restart slurm > > slurm_load_ctl_conf error: Unable to contact slurm controller (connect > failure) Sounds like Slurm doesn't like something in you config file and it won't start. Check your sl

Re: [slurm-users] Memory limit for user account

2018-03-16 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Chris, I read the resouce_limits page. Currently, I have the following options in slurm.conf AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/filetxt JobCompType=jobcomp/filetxt AccountingStorageLoc=/var/log/slurm/accounting JobCompLoc=/var/log/slurm/job_completions JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/linux

Re: [slurm-users] Memory limit for user account

2018-03-14 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 9:39:50 PM AEDT Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Is it possible to set a global memory limit for a user? You can indeed, but you need the accounting database set up for that. Settings limits is documented here: https://slurm.schedmd.com/resource_limits.html and the accounti

[slurm-users] Memory limit for user account

2018-03-14 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Hi, Is it possible to set a global memory limit for a user? I want to set an upper memory limit of 12GB for a user. He can submits more than one job with different --mem sizes. However, the total mem size for that user should not exceed 12GB. I see MaxMemPerCPU and MaxMemPerNode in the manual, but