I use the RealMemory parameter and have never quite understood the difference. Docs seem to indicate that either can achieve the effect of leaving memory reserved for the OS.
Jason *Jason L. Simms, Ph.D., M.P.H.* Research Computing Manager Swarthmore College Information Technology Services (610) 328-8102 On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM Sean Maxwell via slurm-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Are you looking for MemSpecLimit? > https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm.conf.html#OPT_MemSpecLimit > "*Amount of RealMemory, in megabytes, reserved for system use and not > available for user allocations....*" > > -Sean > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM John Hearns via slurm-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Someone remind me please what is the SLurm node parameter to reserve an >> amount of memory for the OS? >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> slurm-users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > > -- > slurm-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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