If you use cgroups, tmpfs /tmp and /dev/shm usage is counted against the requested memory for the job.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:51 PM Ellestad, Erik <erik.elles...@ucsf.edu> wrote: > How are folks managing allocation of local TmpDisk for jobs? > > We see how you define the location of TmpFs in slurm.conf. > > And then how the amount per host is defined via TmpDisk. > > Then the request for srun/sbatch via --tmp=X > > However, it appears SLURM only checks the defined TmpDisk amount when > allocating tmp, not the actual space available on disk. > > That is to say, for example, if during the course of its run, a job uses > more of the TmpDisk space than it requests initially, SLURM doesn't check > the actual disk space available for other jobs. > > The only notification that you will get is when your jobs run out of space > or the defined TmpFs is full. > > Thanks! > > Erik > > --- > Erik Ellestad > Wynton Cluster SysAdmin > UCSF >
