Hello,

We have the following configured and it seems to be working ok.

CgroupAutomount=yes
ConstrainCores=yes
ConstrainDevices=yes
ConstrainRAMSpace=yes

Vlad.

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Hello Vladimir, thank you for your response.

this is the cgroups.conf file:
CgroupAutomount=yes
ConstrainCores=yes
ConstrainDevices=yes
ConstrainRAMSpace=yes
ConstrainSwapSpace=yes
MaxRAMPercent=90
AllowedSwapSpace=0
AllowedRAMSpace=100
MemorySwappiness=0
MaxSwapPercent=0

/etc/default/grub:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 cgroup_enable=memory 
swapaccount=1"

what other cgroup settings need to be set?

&& thank you!
-b

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 4:02 PM Ozeryan, Vladimir 
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--mem=5G. Should allocate 5G of memory per node.
Are your cgroups configured?

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Running slurm 22.03.02 on Ubunutu 22.04 server.
Jobs submitted with --mem=5g are able to allocate an unlimited amount of memory.

how to limit on the job submission level how much memory it can grab?

thanks, and best regards!
Boris

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