I added that line and restarted the service via # systemctl restart slurmctld
However, still I get the same error. Moreover, when I salloc, I don't see slurm/ in cgroup path [shams@hpc ~]$ salloc salloc: Granted job allocation 293 [shams@hpc ~]$ bin/show_my_cgroup --debug bash: bin/show_my_cgroup: No such file or directory [shams@hpc ~]$ cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ machine.slice/ system.slice/ user.slice/ Regards, Mahmood On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:20 AM Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > why not just try it? > you already know that many, many sites use Slurm happily, > and it's not as if blast is something exotic and newfangled. >