On Thu, 5 May 2022, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
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You're right, probably the correct order for Configless must be:
* stop slurmctld
* edit slurm.conf etc.
* start slurmctld
* restart the slurmd nodes to pick up new slurm.conf
See also slides 29-34 in
https://slurm.schedmd.com/SLUG21/Field_Notes_5.pdf from the Slurm
publications site https://slurm.schedmd.com/publications.html
Less-Safe, but usually okay, procedure:
1. Change configs
2. Restart slurmctld
3. Restart all slurmd processes really quickly
Sure, I'd seen that: but it's not exactly ideal, is it?
Roll on dynamic node adding and removing...
Mark