[slurm-users] Re: Upgrade node while jobs running

2024-08-02 Thread Christopher Samuel via slurm-users
G'day Sid, On 7/31/24 5:02 pm, Sid Young via slurm-users wrote: I've been waiting for node to become idle before upgrading them however some jobs take a long time. If I try to remove all the packages I assume that kills the slurmstep program and with it the job. Are you looking to do a Slurm

[slurm-users] Re: Upgrade node while jobs running

2024-08-02 Thread Sid Young via slurm-users
Thanks Tim, that fits with my observations. I will be back on it on the 13th and see what effects upgrading the required RPMs has. Sid On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, 01:41 Cutts, Tim, wrote: > Generally speaking as a best practice I’d perform such things with no jobs > running, but some upgrades you can a

[slurm-users] Re: Upgrade node while jobs running

2024-08-02 Thread Cutts, Tim via slurm-users
Generally speaking as a best practice I’d perform such things with no jobs running, but some upgrades you can allow without it. Upgrading a package, even one which is currently in use by a running job, does not necessarily kill the job. For example, upgrading a shared library won’t kill existi

[slurm-users] Re: Upgrade node while jobs running

2024-07-31 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users
On 8/1/24 02:02, Sid Young via slurm-users wrote: I've been waiting for node to become idle before upgrading them however some jobs take a long time. If I try to remove all the packages I assume that kills the slurmstep program and with it the job. Can you be more specific about what you mean