Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-25 Thread Paul Edmon
So just a heads up here are the two tickets I filed.  The first: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11183  Has more details as to how their plugin works.  The second is the clearing house for improvements: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11135 -Paul Edmon- On 3/19/2021 9:25 AM,

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-22 Thread Brian Andrus
I create the link at job runtime. For my case, I use the prologue to validate the link since I know ahead of time what is needed based on job templates that are used. In the more general case, I would have it be part of the batch script the user runs. Just ensure they clean up afterwards (I u

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-21 Thread Loris Bennett
Brian Andrus writes: > The method I use for jobs is to make /scratch a symlink to where ever it may > be > best suited. Then all users just use /scratch > > eg: /scratch -> /dev/shm for a ramdisk or /scrach->/mnt/ssd for local ssd, etc When do you create the symlink and how do you decide what l

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-19 Thread Brian Andrus
The method I use for jobs is to make /scratch a symlink to where ever it may be best suited. Then all users just use /scratch eg: /scratch -> /dev/shm for a ramdisk or /scrach->/mnt/ssd for local ssd, etc Brian Andrus On 3/19/2021 6:25 AM, Paul Edmon wrote: I was about to ask this as well as

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-19 Thread William Brown
We build with CSI hardened nodes and /tmp is marked to block execution. It causes occasional frustration but it would be important to be able to redirect to a file system that allowed execution. William On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 13:28 Paul Edmon, wrote: > I was about to ask this as well as we use /s

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-19 Thread Paul Edmon
I was about to ask this as well as we use /scratch as our tmp space not /tmp.  I haven't kicked the tires on this to know how it works but after I take a look at it I will probably file a feature request to make the name of the tmp dir flexible. -Paul Edmon- On 3/19/2021 7:19 AM, Tina Friedri

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-19 Thread Tina Friedrich
That's excellent; I've been using the 'auto_tmpdir' plugin for this; having that functionality within SLURM will be good. Have a question though - we have a need to also create a per-job /scratch/ (on a shared fast file system) in much the same way. I don't see a way that the currentl tmpfs p

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

2021-03-16 Thread Tim Wickberg
One errant backspace snuck into that announcement: the job_container.conf man page (with an 'r') serves as the initial documentation for this new job_container/tmpfs plugin. The link to the HTML version of the man page has been corrected in the text below: On 3/16/21 4:16 PM, Tim Wickberg wrot