Hi, I also have the same problem. I think by default, slurm won't add the head node as a compute node. I manually set the state to resume, However, the number of cores is still low (1) and not what I specified in slurm.conf
[root@rocks7 mahmood]# scontrol show node rocks7 NodeName=rocks7 Arch=x86_64 CoresPerSocket=1 CPUAlloc=0 CPUErr=0 CPUTot=1 CPULoad=0.14 AvailableFeatures=(null) ActiveFeatures=(null) Gres=(null) NodeAddr=10.1.1.1 NodeHostName=rocks7 Version=17.11 OS=Linux 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 20 20:32:50 UTC 2017 RealMemory=64261 AllocMem=0 FreeMem=1247 Sockets=1 Boards=1 State=IDLE+DRAIN ThreadsPerCore=1 TmpDisk=281775 Weight=1 Owner=N/A MCS_label=N/A Partitions=WHEEL,EMERALD BootTime=2018-04-13T13:04:59 SlurmdStartTime=2018-04-13T13:05:17 CfgTRES=cpu=1,mem=64261M,billing=1 AllocTRES= CapWatts=n/a CurrentWatts=0 LowestJoules=0 ConsumedJoules=0 ExtSensorsJoules=n/s ExtSensorsWatts=0 ExtSensorsTemp=n/s Reason=Low socket*core*thread count, Low CPUs [root@2018-05-05T21:18:05] [root@rocks7 mahmood]# scontrol update node=rocks7 state=resume [root@rocks7 mahmood]# scontrol show node rocks7 NodeName=rocks7 Arch=x86_64 CoresPerSocket=1 CPUAlloc=0 CPUErr=0 CPUTot=1 CPULoad=0.14 AvailableFeatures=(null) ActiveFeatures=(null) Gres=(null) NodeAddr=10.1.1.1 NodeHostName=rocks7 Version=17.11 OS=Linux 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 20 20:32:50 UTC 2017 RealMemory=64261 AllocMem=0 FreeMem=1247 Sockets=1 Boards=1 State=IDLE ThreadsPerCore=1 TmpDisk=281775 Weight=1 Owner=N/A MCS_label=N/A Partitions=WHEEL,EMERALD BootTime=2018-04-13T13:04:59 SlurmdStartTime=2018-04-13T13:05:17 CfgTRES=cpu=1,mem=64261M,billing=1 AllocTRES= CapWatts=n/a CurrentWatts=0 LowestJoules=0 ConsumedJoules=0 ExtSensorsJoules=n/s ExtSensorsWatts=0 ExtSensorsTemp=n/s [root@rocks7 mahmood]# grep -A 3 -B 3 rocks7 /etc/slurm/slurm.conf DebugFlags=Priority,NO_CONF_HASH,backfill,BackfillMap NodeName=DEFAULT State=UNKNOWN NodeName=rocks7 NodeAddr=10.1.1.1 CPUs=20 PartitionName=DEFAULT AllocNodes=rocks7 State=UP PartitionName=DEBUG ####### Power Save Begin ################## Regards, Mahmood On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > On Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:28:46 AM AEST Matt Hohmeister wrote: > >> …and it looks good, except for the drain on my server/compute node: > > I think if you've had the config wrong at some point in the past then > slurmctld > will remember the error and you'll need to manually clear it with: > > scontrol update node=${NODE} state=resume > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC > >