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
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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 <
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>
>> Someone remind me please what is the SLurm node parameter to reserve an
>> amount of memory for the OS?
>>
>> Thanks
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