Here is some more data: Changed slurm.conf to have
SelectType=select/cons_res SelectTypeParameters=CR_CPU Then restarted sudo systemctl restart slurmctld.service The log on the host said: [2017-11-29T12:23:56.384] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:23:56.384] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:23:56.384] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_ABORT_JOB(6013) received [2017-11-29T12:23:56.384] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received Then did a sudo scontrol reconfigure and the log said: [2017-11-29T12:23:56.394] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:24:34.889] Message aggregation disabled [2017-11-29T12:24:34.890] Resource spec: Reserved system memory limit not configured for this node Sview had running jobs cleard out of its context (they are still running) But I kinda expect that. I then submitted 6 jobs to the partition that do nothing but sleep and the log says: [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.424] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.425] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.434] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.434] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.434] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.434] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.435] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.435] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB(6011) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB(6011) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB(6011) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB(6011) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB(6011) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.436] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.437] error: we don't have select plugin type 101 [2017-11-29T12:25:39.437] error: select_g_select_jobinfo_unpack: unpack error [2017-11-29T12:25:39.437] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB(6011) received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.437] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.446] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.446] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.446] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.446] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.447] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received [2017-11-29T12:25:39.447] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received Lastly changes the config back to linear and restarted reconfigured and the node log says: [2017-11-29T12:26:19.617] [6684.0] job_manager exiting with aborted job [2017-11-29T12:26:19.621] [6684.0] done with job [2017-11-29T12:26:24.591] Message aggregation disabled [2017-11-29T12:26:24.592] Resource spec: Reserved system memory limit not configured for this node Ethan VanMatre Informatics Research Analyst Institute on Development and Disability Oregon Health & Science University CSLU - GH40 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland, OR 97239 (503) 346-3764 vanma...@ohsu.edu