>Memory may be being used by jobs running, or tasks outside the control of >Slurm running, or possibly NFS buffer cache or similar. You may need to >start an ssh session on the node and look.
I checked that. For example, on compute-0-1, I see RealMemory=120705 AllocMem=1024 FreeMem=8442 Sockets=32 Boards=1 I then connected to the node and ran "top" KiB Mem : 12360248+total, 8623376 free, 5197452 used, 10978166+buff/cache I then ran sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches While "top" shows the caches are deleted KiB Mem : 12360248+total, 11805062+free, 5202876 used, 348992 buff/cache Still scontrol shows the same as before RealMemory=120705 AllocMem=1024 FreeMem=8426 Sockets=32 Boards=1 Regards, Mahmood