Hi: If you mean "why are the nodes still Drained, now that I fixed the slurm.conf and restarted (never mind whether the RealMem parameter is correct)?", try 'scontrol update nodename=str957-bl0-0[1-2] State=RESUME'.
-- Paul Brunk, system administrator Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center Enterprise IT Svcs, the University of Georgia -----Original Message----- From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Diego Zuccato Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 04:23 To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> Subject: [slurm-users] "Low RealMem" after upgrade [EXTERNAL SENDER - PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY] Hello all. I just upgraded to Debian 11 that brings Slurm 21.08 and the newer nodes upgraded w/o too many issues (just minor config changes, one being RealMemory value in slurm.conf, since for some reason it seems the new slurmd detects about 12MB less memory than before). But the older nodes are still marked IDLE+DRAIN: -8<-- NodeName=str957-bl0-01 Arch=x86_64 CoresPerSocket=6 CPUAlloc=0 CPUTot=24 CPULoad=0.39 AvailableFeatures=ib,blade,intel,avx ActiveFeatures=ib,blade,intel,avx Gres=(null) NodeAddr=str957-bl0-01 NodeHostName=str957-bl0-01 Version=20.11.4 OS=Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-5 (2021-09-23) RealMemory=64000 AllocMem=0 FreeMem=63518 Sockets=2 Boards=1 MemSpecLimit=2048 State=IDLE+DRAIN ThreadsPerCore=2 TmpDisk=0 Weight=2 Owner=N/A MCS_label=N/A Partitions=b1 BootTime=2021-10-01T09:35:42 SlurmdStartTime=2021-10-01T09:36:15 CfgTRES=cpu=24,mem=62.50G,billing=182 AllocTRES= CapWatts=n/a CurrentWatts=0 AveWatts=0 ExtSensorsJoules=n/s ExtSensorsWatts=0 ExtSensorsTemp=n/s Reason=Low RealMemory [root@2021-10-01T08:08:18] Comment=(null) -8<-- I already reduced RealMemory line in slurm.conf and restarted both slurmctld and slurmd (in case "scontrol reconfigure" was not enough... not really clear from the docs). The relevant lines in slurm.conf are: -8<-- NodeName=DEFAULT Sockets=2 ThreadsPerCore=2 State=UNKNOWN MemSpecLimit=2048 NodeName=str957-bl0-0[1-2] CoresPerSocket=6 RealMemory=64000 Weight=2 Feature=ib,blade,intel,avx -8<-- And the node says: -8<-- root@str957-bl0-01:~# slurmd -C NodeName=str957-bl0-01 CPUs=24 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2 CoresPerSocket=6 ThreadsPerCore=2 RealMemory=64378 UpTime=0-00:37:17 -8<-- I also tried lowering RealMemory setting to 60000, in case MemSpecLimit interfered, but the result remains the same. Any ideas? TIA! -- Diego Zuccato DIFA - Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia Servizi Informatici Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna - Italy tel.: +39 051 20 95786