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NAME
slurm.conf - Slurm configuration file
DESCRIPTION
slurm.conf is an ASCII file which describes general Slurm configuration information, the
nodes to be managed, information about how those nodes are grouped into partitions, and
various scheduling parameters associated with those partitions. This file should be
consistent across all nodes in the cluster.
The file location can be modified at system build time using the DEFAULT_SLURM_CONF
parameter or at execution time by setting the SLURM_CONF environment variable. The Slurm
daemons also allow you to override both the built-in and environment-provided location
using the "-f" option on the command line.
The contents of the file are case insensitive except for the names of nodes and
partitions. Any text following a "#" in the configuration file is treated as a comment
through the end of that line. Changes to the configuration file take effect upon restart
of Slurm daemons, daemon receipt of the SIGHUP signal, or execution of the command
"scontrol reconfigure" unless otherwise noted.
If a line begins with the word "Include" followed by whitespace and then a file name, that
file will be included inline with the current configuration file. For large or complex
systems, multiple configuration files may prove easier to manage and enable reuse of some
files (See INCLUDE MODIFIERS for more details).
Note on file permissions:
The slurm.conf file must be readable by all users of Slurm, since it is used by many of
the Slurm commands. Other files that are defined in the slurm.conf file, such as log
files and job accounting files, may need to be created/owned by the user "SlurmUser" to be
successfully accessed. Use the "chown" and "chmod" commands to set the ownership and
permissions appropriately. See the section FILE AND DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS for information
about the various files and directories used by Slurm.
PARAMETERS
The overall configuration parameters available include:
AccountingStorageBackupHost
The name of the backup machine hosting the accounting storage database. If used
with the accounting_storage/slurmdbd plugin, this is where the backup slurmdbd
would be running. Only used with systems using SlurmDBD, ignored otherwise.
AccountingStorageEnforce
This controls what level of association-based enforcement to impose on job
submissions. Valid options are any combination of associations, limits, nojobs,
nosteps, qos, safe, and wckeys, or all for all things (expect nojobs and nosteps,
they must be requested as well).
If limits, qos, or wckeys are set, associations will automatically be set.
If wckeys is set, TrackWCKey will automatically be set.
If safe is set, limits and associations will automatically be set.
If nojobs is set nosteps will automatically be set.
By enforcing Associations no new job is allowed to run unless a corresponding
association exists in the system. If limits are enforced users can be limited by
association to whatever job size or run time limits are defined.
If nojobs is set Slurm will not account for any jobs or steps on the system, like
wise if nosteps is set Slurm will not account for any steps ran limits will still
be enforced.
If safe is enforced, a job will only be launched against an association or qos that
has a GrpTRESMins limit set if the job will be able to run to completion. Without
this option set, jobs will be launched as long as their usage hasn't reached the
cpu-minutes limit which can lead to jobs being launched but then killed when the
limit is reached.
With qos and/or wckeys enforced jobs will not be scheduled unless a valid qos
and/or workload characterization key is specified.
When AccountingStorageEnforce is changed, a restart of the slurmctld daemon is
required (not just a "scontrol reconfig").
AccountingStorageHost
The name of the machine hosting the accounting storage database. Only used with
systems using SlurmDBD, ignored otherwise. Also see DefaultStorageHost.
AccountingStorageLoc
The fully qualified file name where accounting records are written when the
AccountingStorageType is "accounting_storage/filetxt". Also see DefaultStorageLoc.
AccountingStoragePass
The password used to gain access to the database to store the accounting data.
Only used for database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. In the case of
Slurm DBD (Database Daemon) with MUNGE authentication this can be configured to use
a MUNGE daemon specifically configured to provide authentication between clusters
while the default MUNGE daemon provides authentication within a cluster. In that
case, AccountingStoragePass should specify the named port to be used for
communications with the alternate MUNGE daemon (e.g.
"/var/run/munge/global.socket.2"). The default value is NULL. Also see
DefaultStoragePass.
AccountingStoragePort
The listening port of the accounting storage database server. Only used for
database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. The default value is
SLURMDBD_PORT as established at system build time. If no value is explicitly
specified, it will be set to 6819. This value must be equal to the DbdPort
parameter in the slurmdbd.conf file. Also see DefaultStoragePort.
AccountingStorageTRES
Comma separated list of resources you wish to track on the cluster. These are the
resources requested by the sbatch/srun job when it is submitted. Currently this
consists of any GRES, BB (burst buffer) or license along with CPU, Memory, Node,
Energy, FS/[Disk|Lustre], IC/OFED, Pages, and VMem. By default Billing, CPU,
Energy, Memory, Node, FS/Disk, Pages and VMem are tracked. These default TRES
cannot be disabled, but only appended to.
AccountingStorageTRES=gres/craynetwork,license/iop1 will track billing, cpu,
energy, memory, nodes, fs/disk, pages and vmem along with a gres called craynetwork
as well as a license called iop1. Whenever these resources are used on the cluster
they are recorded. The TRES are automatically set up in the database on the start
of the slurmctld.
If multiple GRES of different types are tracked (e.g. GPUs of different types),
then job requests with matching type specifications will be recorded. Given a
configuration of "AccountingStorageTRES=gres/gpu,gres/gpu:tesla,gres/gpu:volta"
Then "gres/gpu:tesla" and "gres/gpu:volta" will track only jobs that explicitly
request those two GPU types, while "gres/gpu" will track allocated GPUs of any type
("tesla", "volta" or any other GPU type).
Given a configuration of "AccountingStorageTRES=gres/gpu:tesla,gres/gpu:volta" Then
"gres/gpu:tesla" and "gres/gpu:volta" will track jobs that explicitly request those
GPU types. If a job requests GPUs, but does not explicitly specify the GPU type,
then it's resource allocation will be accounted for as either "gres/gpu:tesla" or
"gres/gpu:volta", although the accounting may not match the actual GPU type
allocated to the job and the GPUs allocated to the job could be heterogeneous. In
an environment containing various GPU types, use of a job_submit plugin may be
desired in order to force jobs to explicitly specify some GPU type.
AccountingStorageType
The accounting storage mechanism type. Acceptable values at present include
"accounting_storage/filetxt", "accounting_storage/none" and
"accounting_storage/slurmdbd". The "accounting_storage/filetxt" value indicates
that accounting records will be written to the file specified by the
AccountingStorageLoc parameter. The "accounting_storage/slurmdbd" value indicates
that accounting records will be written to the Slurm DBD, which manages an
underlying MySQL database. See "man slurmdbd" for more information. The default
value is "accounting_storage/none" and indicates that account records are not
maintained. Note: The filetxt plugin records only a limited subset of accounting
information and will prevent some sacct options from proper operation. Also see
DefaultStorageType.
AccountingStorageUser
The user account for accessing the accounting storage database. Only used for
database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also see DefaultStorageUser.
AccountingStoreJobComment
If set to "YES" then include the job's comment field in the job complete message
sent to the Accounting Storage database. The default is "YES". Note the
AdminComment and SystemComment are always recorded in the database.
AcctGatherNodeFreq
The AcctGather plugins sampling interval for node accounting. For AcctGather
plugin values of none, this parameter is ignored. For all other values this
parameter is the number of seconds between node accounting samples. For the
acct_gather_energy/rapl plugin, set a value less than 300 because the counters may
overflow beyond this rate. The default value is zero. This value disables
accounting sampling for nodes. Note: The accounting sampling interval for jobs is
determined by the value of JobAcctGatherFrequency.
AcctGatherEnergyType
Identifies the plugin to be used for energy consumption accounting. The
jobacct_gather plugin and slurmd daemon call this plugin to collect energy
consumption data for jobs and nodes. The collection of energy consumption data
takes place on the node level, hence only in case of exclusive job allocation the
energy consumption measurements will reflect the job's real consumption. In case of
node sharing between jobs the reported consumed energy per job (through sstat or
sacct) will not reflect the real energy consumed by the jobs.
Configurable values at present are:
acct_gather_energy/none
No energy consumption data is collected.
acct_gather_energy/ipmi
Energy consumption data is collected from the Baseboard
Management Controller (BMC) using the Intelligent Platform
Management Interface (IPMI).
acct_gather_energy/rapl
Energy consumption data is collected from hardware sensors
using the Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) mechanism. Note
that enabling RAPL may require the execution of the command
"sudo modprobe msr".
AcctGatherInfinibandType
Identifies the plugin to be used for infiniband network traffic accounting. The
jobacct_gather plugin and slurmd daemon call this plugin to collect network traffic
data for jobs and nodes. The collection of network traffic data takes place on the
node level, hence only in case of exclusive job allocation the collected values
will reflect the job's real traffic. In case of node sharing between jobs the
reported network traffic per job (through sstat or sacct) will not reflect the real
network traffic by the jobs.
Configurable values at present are:
acct_gather_infiniband/none
No infiniband network data are collected.
acct_gather_infiniband/ofed
Infiniband network traffic data are collected from the hardware
monitoring counters of Infiniband devices through the OFED
library. In order to account for per job network traffic, add
the "ic/ofed" TRES to AccountingStorageTRES.
AcctGatherFilesystemType
Identifies the plugin to be used for filesystem traffic accounting. The
jobacct_gather plugin and slurmd daemon call this plugin to collect filesystem
traffic data for jobs and nodes. The collection of filesystem traffic data takes
place on the node level, hence only in case of exclusive job allocation the
collected values will reflect the job's real traffic. In case of node sharing
between jobs the reported filesystem traffic per job (through sstat or sacct) will
not reflect the real filesystem traffic by the jobs.
Configurable values at present are:
acct_gather_filesystem/none
No filesystem data are collected.
acct_gather_filesystem/lustre
Lustre filesystem traffic data are collected from the counters
found in /proc/fs/lustre/. In order to account for per job
lustre traffic, add the "fs/lustre" TRES to
AccountingStorageTRES.
AcctGatherProfileType
Identifies the plugin to be used for detailed job profiling. The jobacct_gather
plugin and slurmd daemon call this plugin to collect detailed data such as I/O
counts, memory usage, or energy consumption for jobs and nodes. There are
interfaces in this plugin to collect data as step start and completion, task start
and completion, and at the account gather frequency. The data collected at the node
level is related to jobs only in case of exclusive job allocation.
Configurable values at present are:
acct_gather_profile/none
No profile data is collected.
acct_gather_profile/hdf5
This enables the HDF5 plugin. The directory where the profile
files are stored and which values are collected are configured
in the acct_gather.conf file.
acct_gather_profile/influxdb
This enables the influxdb plugin. The influxdb instance host,
port, database, retention policy and which values are collected
are configured in the acct_gather.conf file.
AllowSpecResourcesUsage
If set to 1, Slurm allows individual jobs to override node's configured
CoreSpecCount value. For a job to take advantage of this feature, a command line
option of --core-spec must be specified. The default value for this option is 1
for Cray systems and 0 for other system types.
AuthAltTypes
Command separated list of alternative authentication plugins that the slurmctld
will permit for communication.
AuthInfo
Additional information to be used for authentication of communications between the
Slurm daemons (slurmctld and slurmd) and the Slurm clients. The interpretation of
this option is specific to the configured AuthType. Multiple options may be
specified in a comma delimited list. If not specified, the default authentication
information will be used.
cred_expire Default job step credential lifetime, in seconds (e.g.
"cred_expire=1200"). It must be sufficiently long enough to load
user environment, run prolog, deal with the slurmd getting paged out
of memory, etc. This also controls how long a requeued job must wait
before starting again. The default value is 120 seconds.
socket Path name to a MUNGE daemon socket to use (e.g.
"socket=/var/run/munge/munge.socket.2"). The default value is
"/var/run/munge/munge.socket.2". Used by auth/munge and cred/munge.
ttl Credential lifetime, in seconds (e.g. "ttl=300"). The default value
is dependent upon the MUNGE installation, but is typically 300
seconds.
AuthType
The authentication method for communications between Slurm components. Acceptable
values at present include "auth/munge" and "auth/none". The default value is
"auth/munge". "auth/none" includes the UID in each communication, but it is not
verified. This may be fine for testing purposes, but do not use "auth/none" if you
desire any security. "auth/munge" indicates that MUNGE is to be used. (See
"https://dun.github.io/munge/" for more information). All Slurm daemons and
commands must be terminated prior to changing the value of AuthType and later
restarted.
BackupAddr
Defunct option, see SlurmctldHost.
BackupController
Defunct option, see SlurmctldHost.
The backup controller recovers state information from the StateSaveLocation
directory, which must be readable and writable from both the primary and backup
controllers. While not essential, it is recommended that you specify a backup
controller. See the RELOCATING CONTROLLERS section if you change this.
BatchStartTimeout
The maximum time (in seconds) that a batch job is permitted for launching before
being considered missing and releasing the allocation. The default value is 10
(seconds). Larger values may be required if more time is required to execute the
Prolog, load user environment variables (for Moab spawned jobs), or if the slurmd
daemon gets paged from memory.
Note: The test for a job being successfully launched is only performed when the
Slurm daemon on the compute node registers state with the slurmctld daemon on the
head node, which happens fairly rarely. Therefore a job will not necessarily be
terminated if its start time exceeds BatchStartTimeout. This configuration
parameter is also applied to launch tasks and avoid aborting srun commands due to
long running Prolog scripts.
BurstBufferType
The plugin used to manage burst buffers. Acceptable values at present are:
burst_buffer/datawrap
Use Cray DataWarp API to provide burst buffer functionality.
burst_buffer/none
CheckpointType
The system-initiated checkpoint method to be used for user jobs. The slurmctld
daemon must be restarted for a change in CheckpointType to take effect. Supported
values presently include:
checkpoint/none
no checkpoint support (default)
checkpoint/ompi
OpenMPI (version 1.3 or higher)
CliFilterPlugins
A comma delimited list of command line interface option filter/modification
plugins. The specified plugins will be executed in the order listed. These are
intended to be site-specific plugins which can be used to set default job
parameters and/or logging events. No cli_filter plugins are used by default.
ClusterName
The name by which this Slurm managed cluster is known in the accounting database.
This is needed distinguish accounting records when multiple clusters report to the
same database. Because of limitations in some databases, any upper case letters in
the name will be silently mapped to lower case. In order to avoid confusion, it is
recommended that the name be lower case.
CommunicationParameters
Comma separated options identifying communication options.
CheckGhalQuiesce
Used specifically on a Cray using an Aries Ghal interconnect. This
will check to see if the system is quiescing when sending a message,
and if so, we wait until it is done before sending.
NoAddrCache By default, Slurm will cache a node's network address after
successfully establishing the node's network address. This option
disables the cache and Slurm will look up the node's network address
each time a connection is made. This is useful, for example, in a
cloud environment where the node addresses come and go out of DNS.
NoCtldInAddrAny
Used to directly bind to the address of what the node resolves to
running the slurmctld instead of binding messages to any address on
the node, which is the default.
NoInAddrAny Used to directly bind to the address of what the node resolves to
instead of binding messages to any address on the node which is the
default. This option is for all daemons/clients except for the
slurmctld.
CompleteWait
The time, in seconds, given for a job to remain in COMPLETING state before any
additional jobs are scheduled. If set to zero, pending jobs will be started as
soon as possible. Since a COMPLETING job's resources are released for use by other
jobs as soon as the Epilog completes on each individual node, this can result in
very fragmented resource allocations. To provide jobs with the minimum response
time, a value of zero is recommended (no waiting). To minimize fragmentation of
resources, a value equal to KillWait plus two is recommended. In that case,
setting KillWait to a small value may be beneficial. The default value of
CompleteWait is zero seconds. The value may not exceed 65533.
ControlAddr
Defunct option, see SlurmctldHost.
ControlMachine
Defunct option, see SlurmctldHost.
CoreSpecPlugin
Identifies the plugins to be used for enforcement of core specialization. The
slurmd daemon must be restarted for a change in CoreSpecPlugin to take effect.
Acceptable values at present include:
core_spec/cray_aries
used only for Cray systems
core_spec/none used for all other system types
CpuFreqDef
Default CPU frequency value or frequency governor to use when running a job step if
it has not been explicitly set with the --cpu-freq option. Acceptable values at
present include a numeric value (frequency in kilohertz) or one of the following
governors:
Conservative attempts to use the Conservative CPU governor
OnDemand attempts to use the OnDemand CPU governor
Performance attempts to use the Performance CPU governor
PowerSave attempts to use the PowerSave CPU governor
There is no default value. If unset, no attempt to set the governor is made if the
--cpu-freq option has not been set.
CpuFreqGovernors
List of CPU frequency governors allowed to be set with the salloc, sbatch, or srun
option --cpu-freq. Acceptable values at present include:
Conservative attempts to use the Conservative CPU governor
OnDemand attempts to use the OnDemand CPU governor (a default value)
Performance attempts to use the Performance CPU governor (a default value)
PowerSave attempts to use the PowerSave CPU governor
UserSpace attempts to use the UserSpace CPU governor (a default value)
The default is OnDemand, Performance and UserSpace.
CredType
The cryptographic signature tool to be used in the creation of job step
credentials. The slurmctld daemon must be restarted for a change in CredType to
take effect. Acceptable values at present include "cred/munge". The default value
is "cred/munge" and is the recommended.
DebugFlags
Defines specific subsystems which should provide more detailed event logging.
Multiple subsystems can be specified with comma separators. Most DebugFlags will
result in verbose logging for the identified subsystems and could impact
performance. Valid subsystems available today (with more to come) include:
Accrue Accrue counters accounting details
Agent RPC agents (outgoing RPCs from Slurm daemons)
Backfill Backfill scheduler details
BackfillMap Backfill scheduler to log a very verbose map of reserved resources
through time. Combine with Backfill for a verbose and complete
view of the backfill scheduler's work.
BurstBuffer Burst Buffer plugin
CPU_Bind CPU binding details for jobs and steps
CpuFrequency Cpu frequency details for jobs and steps using the --cpu-freq
option.
Elasticsearch Elasticsearch debug info
Energy AcctGatherEnergy debug info
ExtSensors External Sensors debug info
Federation Federation scheduling debug info
FrontEnd Front end node details
Gres Generic resource details
HeteroJobs Heterogeneous job details
Gang Gang scheduling details
JobContainer Job container plugin details
License License management details
NodeFeatures Node Features plugin debug info
NO_CONF_HASH Do not log when the slurm.conf files differs between Slurm daemons
Power Power management plugin
PowerSave Power save (suspend/resume programs) details
Priority Job prioritization
Profile AcctGatherProfile plugins details
Protocol Communication protocol details
Reservation Advanced reservations
Route Message forwarding and message aggregation debug info
SelectType Resource selection plugin
Steps Slurmctld resource allocation for job steps
Switch Switch plugin
TimeCray Timing of Cray APIs
TRESNode Limits dealing with TRES=Node
TraceJobs Trace jobs in slurmctld. It will print detailed job information
including state, job ids and allocated nodes counter.
Triggers Slurmctld triggers
DefCpuPerGPU
Default count of CPUs allocated per allocated GPU.
DefMemPerCPU
Default real memory size available per allocated CPU in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. DefMemPerCPU would generally be used
if individual processors are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/cons_res or
SelectType=select/cons_tres). The default value is 0 (unlimited). Also see
DefMemPerGPU, DefMemPerNode and MaxMemPerCPU. DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerGPU and
DefMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
DefMemPerGPU
Default real memory size available per allocated GPU in megabytes. The default
value is 0 (unlimited). Also see DefMemPerCPU and DefMemPerNode. DefMemPerCPU,
DefMemPerGPU and DefMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
DefMemPerNode
Default real memory size available per allocated node in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. DefMemPerNode would generally be used
if whole nodes are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/linear) and resources are
over-subscribed (OverSubscribe=yes or OverSubscribe=force). The default value is 0
(unlimited). Also see DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerGPU and MaxMemPerCPU. DefMemPerCPU,
DefMemPerGPU and DefMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
DefaultStorageHost
The default name of the machine hosting the accounting storage and job completion
databases. Only used for database type storage plugins and when the
AccountingStorageHost and JobCompHost have not been defined.
DefaultStorageLoc
The fully qualified file name where accounting records and/or job completion
records are written when the DefaultStorageType is "filetxt". Also see
AccountingStorageLoc and JobCompLoc.
DefaultStoragePass
The password used to gain access to the database to store the accounting and job
completion data. Only used for database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise.
Also see AccountingStoragePass and JobCompPass.
DefaultStoragePort
The listening port of the accounting storage and/or job completion database server.
Only used for database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also see
AccountingStoragePort and JobCompPort.
DefaultStorageType
The accounting and job completion storage mechanism type. Acceptable values at
present include "filetxt", "mysql" and "none". The value "filetxt" indicates that
records will be written to a file. The value "mysql" indicates that accounting
records will be written to a MySQL or MariaDB database. The default value is
"none", which means that records are not maintained. Also see
AccountingStorageType and JobCompType.
DefaultStorageUser
The user account for accessing the accounting storage and/or job completion
database. Only used for database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also
see AccountingStorageUser and JobCompUser.
DisableRootJobs
If set to "YES" then user root will be prevented from running any jobs. The
default value is "NO", meaning user root will be able to execute jobs.
DisableRootJobs may also be set by partition.
EioTimeout
The number of seconds srun waits for slurmstepd to close the TCP/IP connection used
to relay data between the user application and srun when the user application
terminates. The default value is 60 seconds. May not exceed 65533.
EnforcePartLimits
If set to "ALL" then jobs which exceed a partition's size and/or time limits will
be rejected at submission time. If job is submitted to multiple partitions, the job
must satisfy the limits on all the requested partitions. If set to "NO" then the
job will be accepted and remain queued until the partition limits are altered(Time
and Node Limits). If set to "ANY" a job must satisfy any of the requested
partitions to be submitted. The default value is "NO". NOTE: If set, then a job's
QOS can not be used to exceed partition limits. NOTE: The partition limits being
considered are it's configured MaxMemPerCPU, MaxMemPerNode, MinNodes, MaxNodes,
MaxTime, AllocNodes, AllowAccounts, AllowGroups, AllowQOS, and QOS usage threshold.
Epilog Fully qualified pathname of a script to execute as user root on every node when a
user's job completes (e.g. "/usr/local/slurm/epilog"). A glob pattern (See glob
(7)) may also be used to run more than one epilog script (e.g.
"/etc/slurm/epilog.d/*"). The Epilog script or scripts may be used to purge files,
disable user login, etc. By default there is no epilog. See Prolog and Epilog
Scripts for more information.
EpilogMsgTime
The number of microseconds that the slurmctld daemon requires to process an epilog
completion message from the slurmd daemons. This parameter can be used to prevent a
burst of epilog completion messages from being sent at the same time which should
help prevent lost messages and improve throughput for large jobs. The default
value is 2000 microseconds. For a 1000 node job, this spreads the epilog
completion messages out over two seconds.
EpilogSlurmctld
Fully qualified pathname of a program for the slurmctld to execute upon termination
of a job allocation (e.g. "/usr/local/slurm/epilog_controller"). The program
executes as SlurmUser, which gives it permission to drain nodes and requeue the job
if a failure occurs (See scontrol(1)). Exactly what the program does and how it
accomplishes this is completely at the discretion of the system administrator.
Information about the job being initiated, it's allocated nodes, etc. are passed to
the program using environment variables. See Prolog and Epilog Scripts for more
information.
ExtSensorsFreq
The external sensors plugin sampling interval. If ExtSensorsType=ext_sensors/none,
this parameter is ignored. For all other values of ExtSensorsType, this parameter
is the number of seconds between external sensors samples for hardware components
(nodes, switches, etc.) The default value is zero. This value disables external
sensors sampling. Note: This parameter does not affect external sensors data
collection for jobs/steps.
ExtSensorsType
Identifies the plugin to be used for external sensors data collection. Slurmctld
calls this plugin to collect external sensors data for jobs/steps and hardware
components. In case of node sharing between jobs the reported values per job/step
(through sstat or sacct) may not be accurate. See also "man ext_sensors.conf".
Configurable values at present are:
ext_sensors/none No external sensors data is collected.
ext_sensors/rrd External sensors data is collected from the RRD database.
FairShareDampeningFactor
Dampen the effect of exceeding a user or group's fair share of allocated resources.
Higher values will provides greater ability to differentiate between exceeding the
fair share at high levels (e.g. a value of 1 results in almost no difference
between overconsumption by a factor of 10 and 100, while a value of 5 will result
in a significant difference in priority). The default value is 1.
FederationParameters
Used to define federation options. Multiple options may be comma separated.
fed_display
If set, then the client status commands (e.g. squeue, sinfo, sprio, etc.)
will display information in a federated view by default. This option is
functionally equivalent to using the --federation options on each command.
Use the client's --local option to override the federated view and get a
local view of the given cluster.
FirstJobId
The job id to be used for the first submitted to Slurm without a specific requested
value. Job id values generated will incremented by 1 for each subsequent job. This
may be used to provide a meta-scheduler with a job id space which is disjoint from
the interactive jobs. The default value is 1. Also see MaxJobId
GetEnvTimeout
Used for Moab scheduled jobs only. Controls how long job should wait in seconds for
loading the user's environment before attempting to load it from a cache file.
Applies when the srun or sbatch --get-user-env option is used. If set to 0 then
always load the user's environment from the cache file. The default value is 2
seconds.
GresTypes
A comma delimited list of generic resources to be managed (e.g.
GresTypes=gpu,mps). These resources may have an associated GRES plugin of the same
name providing additional functionality. No generic resources are managed by
default. Ensure this parameter is consistent across all nodes in the cluster for
proper operation. The slurmctld daemon must be restarted for changes to this
parameter to become effective.
GroupUpdateForce
If set to a non-zero value, then information about which users are members of
groups allowed to use a partition will be updated periodically, even when there
have been no changes to the /etc/group file. If set to zero, group member
information will be updated only after the /etc/group file is updated. The default
value is 1. Also see the GroupUpdateTime parameter.
GroupUpdateTime
Controls how frequently information about which users are members of groups allowed
to use a partition will be updated, and how long user group membership lists will
be cached. The time interval is given in seconds with a default value of 600
seconds. A value of zero will prevent periodic updating of group membership
information. Also see the GroupUpdateForce parameter.
GpuFreqDef=[<type]=value>[,<type=value>]
Default GPU frequency to use when running a job step if it has not been explicitly
set using the --gpu-freq option. This option can be used to independently
configure the GPU and its memory frequencies. Defaults to "high,memory=high".
After the job is completed, the frequencies of all affected GPUs will be reset to
the highest possible values. In some cases, system power caps may override the
requested values. The field type can be "memory". If type is not specified, the
GPU frequency is implied. The value field can either be "low", "medium", "high",
"highm1" or a numeric value in megahertz (MHz). If the specified numeric value is
not possible, a value as close as possible will be used. See below for definition
of the values. Examples of use include "GpuFreqDef=medium,memory=high and
"GpuFreqDef=450".
Supported value definitions:
low the lowest available frequency.
medium attempts to set a frequency in the middle of the available range.
high the highest available frequency.
highm1 (high minus one) will select the next highest available frequency.
HealthCheckInterval
The interval in seconds between executions of HealthCheckProgram. The default
value is zero, which disables execution.
HealthCheckNodeState
Identify what node states should execute the HealthCheckProgram. Multiple state
values may be specified with a comma separator. The default value is ANY to
execute on nodes in any state.
ALLOC Run on nodes in the ALLOC state (all CPUs allocated).
ANY Run on nodes in any state.
CYCLE Rather than running the health check program on all nodes at the same
time, cycle through running on all compute nodes through the course of
the HealthCheckInterval. May be combined with the various node state
options.
IDLE Run on nodes in the IDLE state.
MIXED Run on nodes in the MIXED state (some CPUs idle and other CPUs
allocated).
HealthCheckProgram
Fully qualified pathname of a script to execute as user root periodically on all
compute nodes that are not in the NOT_RESPONDING state. This program may be used to
verify the node is fully operational and DRAIN the node or send email if a problem
is detected. Any action to be taken must be explicitly performed by the program
(e.g. execute "scontrol update NodeName=foo State=drain
Reason=tmp_file_system_full" to drain a node). The execution interval is
controlled using the HealthCheckInterval parameter. Note that the
HealthCheckProgram will be executed at the same time on all nodes to minimize its
impact upon parallel programs. This program is will be killed if it does not
terminate normally within 60 seconds. This program will also be executed when the
slurmd daemon is first started and before it registers with the slurmctld daemon.
By default, no program will be executed.
InactiveLimit
The interval, in seconds, after which a non-responsive job allocation command (e.g.
srun or salloc) will result in the job being terminated. If the node on which the
command is executed fails or the command abnormally terminates, this will terminate
its job allocation. This option has no effect upon batch jobs. When setting a
value, take into consideration that a debugger using srun to launch an application
may leave the srun command in a stopped state for extended periods of time. This
limit is ignored for jobs running in partitions with the RootOnly flag set (the
scheduler running as root will be responsible for the job). The default value is
unlimited (zero) and may not exceed 65533 seconds.
JobAcctGatherType
The job accounting mechanism type. Acceptable values at present include
"jobacct_gather/linux" (for Linux systems) and is the recommended one,
"jobacct_gather/cgroup" and "jobacct_gather/none" (no accounting data collected).
The default value is "jobacct_gather/none". "jobacct_gather/cgroup" is a plugin
for the Linux operating system that uses cgroups to collect accounting statistics.
The plugin collects the following statistics: From the cgroup memory subsystem:
memory.usage_in_bytes (reported as 'pages') and rss from memory.stat (reported as
'rss'). From the cgroup cpuacct subsystem: user cpu time and system cpu time. No
value is provided by cgroups for virtual memory size ('vsize'). In order to use
the sstat tool "jobacct_gather/linux", or "jobacct_gather/cgroup" must be
configured.
NOTE: Changing this configuration parameter changes the contents of the messages
between Slurm daemons. Any previously running job steps are managed by a slurmstepd
daemon that will persist through the lifetime of that job step and not change it's
communication protocol. Only change this configuration parameter when there are no
running job steps.
JobAcctGatherFrequency
The job accounting and profiling sampling intervals. The supported format is
follows:
JobAcctGatherFrequency=<datatype>=<interval>
where <datatype>=<interval> specifies the task sampling interval for
the jobacct_gather plugin or a sampling interval for a profiling type
by the acct_gather_profile plugin. Multiple, comma-separated
<datatype>=<interval> intervals may be specified. Supported datatypes
are as follows:
task=<interval>
where <interval> is the task sampling interval in seconds for
the jobacct_gather plugins and for task profiling by the
acct_gather_profile plugin.
energy=<interval>
where <interval> is the sampling interval in seconds for energy
profiling using the acct_gather_energy plugin
network=<interval>
where <interval> is the sampling interval in seconds for
infiniband profiling using the acct_gather_infiniband plugin.
filesystem=<interval>
where <interval> is the sampling interval in seconds for
filesystem profiling using the acct_gather_filesystem plugin.
The default value for task sampling interval
is 30 seconds. The default value for all other intervals is 0. An interval of 0
disables sampling of the specified type. If the task sampling interval is 0,
accounting information is collected only at job termination (reducing Slurm
interference with the job).
Smaller (non-zero) values have a greater impact upon job performance, but a value
of 30 seconds is not likely to be noticeable for applications having less than
10,000 tasks.
Users can independently override each interval on a per job basis using the
--acctg-freq option when submitting the job.
JobAcctGatherParams
Arbitrary parameters for the job account gather plugin Acceptable values at present
include:
NoShared Exclude shared memory from accounting.
UsePss Use PSS value instead of RSS to calculate real usage of memory.
The PSS value will be saved as RSS.
OverMemoryKill Kill jobs or steps that are being detected to use more memory
than requested every time accounting information is gathered by
the JobAcctGather plugin. This parameter will not kill a job
directly, but only the step. See MemLimitEnforce for that
purpose. This parameter should be used with caution as if jobs
exceeds its memory allocation it may affect other processes
and/or machine health. NOTE: It is recommended to limit memory
by enabling task/cgroup in TaskPlugin and making use of
ConstrainRAMSpace=yes cgroup.conf instead of using this
JobAcctGather mechanism for memory enforcement, since the
former has a lower resolution (JobAcctGatherFreq) and OOMs
could happen at some point.
JobCheckpointDir
Specifies the default directory for storing or reading job checkpoint information.
The data stored here is only a few thousand bytes per job and includes information
needed to resubmit the job request, not job's memory image. The directory must be
readable and writable by SlurmUser, but not writable by regular users. The job
memory images may be in a different location as specified by --checkpoint-dir
option at job submit time or scontrol's ImageDir option.
JobCompHost
The name of the machine hosting the job completion database. Only used for
database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also see DefaultStorageHost.
JobCompLoc
The fully qualified file name where job completion records are written when the
JobCompType is "jobcomp/filetxt" or the database where job completion records are
stored when the JobCompType is a database, or an url with format
http://yourelasticserver:port when JobCompType is "jobcomp/elasticsearch". NOTE:
when you specify a URL for Elasticsearch, Slurm will remove any trailing slashes
"/" from the configured URL and append "/slurm/jobcomp", which are the
Elasticsearch index name (slurm) and mapping (jobcomp). NOTE: More information is
available at the Slurm web site ( https://slurm.schedmd.com/elasticsearch.html ).
Also see DefaultStorageLoc.
JobCompPass
The password used to gain access to the database to store the job completion data.
Only used for database type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also see
DefaultStoragePass.
JobCompPort
The listening port of the job completion database server. Only used for database
type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also see DefaultStoragePort.
JobCompType
The job completion logging mechanism type. Acceptable values at present include
"jobcomp/none", "jobcomp/elasticsearch", "jobcomp/filetxt", "jobcomp/mysql" and
"jobcomp/script". The default value is "jobcomp/none", which means that upon job
completion the record of the job is purged from the system. If using the
accounting infrastructure this plugin may not be of interest since the information
here is redundant. The value "jobcomp/elasticsearch" indicates that a record of
the job should be written to an Elasticsearch server specified by the JobCompLoc
parameter. NOTE: More information is available at the Slurm web site (
https://slurm.schedmd.com/elasticsearch.html ). The value "jobcomp/filetxt"
indicates that a record of the job should be written to a text file specified by
the JobCompLoc parameter. The value "jobcomp/mysql" indicates that a record of the
job should be written to a MySQL or MariaDB database specified by the JobCompLoc
parameter. The value "jobcomp/script" indicates that a script specified by the
JobCompLoc parameter is to be executed with environment variables indicating the
job information.
JobCompUser
The user account for accessing the job completion database. Only used for database
type storage plugins, ignored otherwise. Also see DefaultStorageUser.
JobContainerType
Identifies the plugin to be used for job tracking. The slurmd daemon must be
restarted for a change in JobContainerType to take effect. NOTE: The
JobContainerType applies to a job allocation, while ProctrackType applies to job
steps. Acceptable values at present include:
job_container/cncu used only for Cray systems (CNCU = Compute Node Clean Up)
job_container/none used for all other system types
JobFileAppend
This option controls what to do if a job's output or error file exist when the job
is started. If JobFileAppend is set to a value of 1, then append to the existing
file. By default, any existing file is truncated.
JobRequeue
This option controls the default ability for batch jobs to be requeued. Jobs may
be requeued explicitly by a system administrator, after node failure, or upon
preemption by a higher priority job. If JobRequeue is set to a value of 1, then
batch job may be requeued unless explicitly disabled by the user. If JobRequeue is
set to a value of 0, then batch job will not be requeued unless explicitly enabled
by the user. Use the sbatch --no-requeue or --requeue option to change the default
behavior for individual jobs. The default value is 1.
JobSubmitPlugins
A comma delimited list of job submission plugins to be used. The specified plugins
will be executed in the order listed. These are intended to be site-specific
plugins which can be used to set default job parameters and/or logging events.
Sample plugins available in the distribution include "all_partitions", "defaults",
"logging", "lua", and "partition". For examples of use, see the Slurm code in
"src/plugins/job_submit" and "contribs/lua/job_submit*.lua" then modify the code to
satisfy your needs. Slurm can be configured to use multiple job_submit plugins if
desired, however the lua plugin will only execute one lua script named
"job_submit.lua" located in the default script directory (typically the
subdirectory "etc" of the installation directory). No job submission plugins are
used by default.
KeepAliveTime
Specifies how long sockets communications used between the srun command and its
slurmstepd process are kept alive after disconnect. Longer values can be used to
improve reliability of communications in the event of network failures. The
default value leaves the system default value. The value may not exceed 65533.
KillOnBadExit
If set to 1, a step will be terminated immediately if any task is crashed or
aborted, as indicated by a non-zero exit code. With the default value of 0, if one
of the processes is crashed or aborted the other processes will continue to run
while the crashed or aborted process waits. The user can override this
configuration parameter by using srun's -K, --kill-on-bad-exit.
KillWait
The interval, in seconds, given to a job's processes between the SIGTERM and
SIGKILL signals upon reaching its time limit. If the job fails to terminate
gracefully in the interval specified, it will be forcibly terminated. The default
value is 30 seconds. The value may not exceed 65533.
NodeFeaturesPlugins
Identifies the plugins to be used for support of node features which can change
through time. For example, a node which might be booted with various BIOS setting.
This is supported through the use of a node's active_features and
available_features information. Acceptable values at present include:
node_features/knl_cray
used only for Intel Knights Landing processors (KNL) on Cray
systems
node_features/knl_generic
used for Intel Knights Landing processors (KNL) on a generic
Linux system
LaunchParameters
Identifies options to the job launch plugin. Acceptable values include:
batch_step_set_cpu_freq Set the cpu frequency for the batch step from given
--cpu-freq, or slurm.conf CpuFreqDef, option. By default
only steps started with srun will utilize the cpu freq
setting options.
NOTE: If you are using srun to launch your steps inside a
batch script (advised) this option will create a situation
where you may have multiple agents setting the cpu_freq as
the batch step usually runs on the same resources one or
more steps the sruns in the script will create.
cray_net_exclusive Allow jobs on a Cray Native cluster exclusive access to
network resources. This should only be set on clusters
providing exclusive access to each node to a single job at
once, and not using parallel steps within the job,
otherwise resources on the node can be oversubscribed.
enable_nss_slurm Permits passwd and group resolution for a job to be
serviced by slurmstepd rather than requiring a lookup from
a network based service. See
https://slurm.schedmd.com/nss_slurm.html for more
information.
lustre_no_flush If set on a Cray Native cluster, then do not flush the
Lustre cache on job step completion. This setting will only
take effect after reconfiguring, and will only take effect
for newly launched jobs.
mem_sort Sort NUMA memory at step start. User can override this
default with SLURM_MEM_BIND environment variable or
--mem-bind=nosort command line option.
disable_send_gids By default the slurmctld will lookup and send the user_name
and extended gids for a job, rather than individual on each
node as part of each task launch. Which avoids issues
around name service scalability when launching jobs
involving many nodes. Using this option will reverse this
functionality.
slurmstepd_memlock Lock the slurmstepd process's current memory in RAM.
slurmstepd_memlock_all Lock the slurmstepd process's current and future memory in
RAM.
test_exec Have srun verify existence of the executable program along
with user execute permission on the node where srun was
called before attempting to launch it on nodes in the step.
LaunchType
Identifies the mechanism to be used to launch application tasks. Acceptable values
include:
launch/slurm
The default value.
Licenses
Specification of licenses (or other resources available on all nodes of the
cluster) which can be allocated to jobs. License names can optionally be followed
by a colon and count with a default count of one. Multiple license names should be
comma separated (e.g. "Licenses=foo:4,bar"). Note that Slurm prevents jobs from
being scheduled if their required license specification is not available. Slurm
does not prevent jobs from using licenses that are not explicitly listed in the job
submission specification.
LogTimeFormat
Format of the timestamp in slurmctld and slurmd log files. Accepted values are
"iso8601", "iso8601_ms", "rfc5424", "rfc5424_ms", "clock", "short" and "thread_id".
The values ending in "_ms" differ from the ones without in that fractional seconds
with millisecond precision are printed. The default value is "iso8601_ms". The
"rfc5424" formats are the same as the "iso8601" formats except that the timezone
value is also shown. The "clock" format shows a timestamp in microseconds retrieved
with the C standard clock() function. The "short" format is a short date and time
format. The "thread_id" format shows the timestamp in the C standard ctime()
function form without the year but including the microseconds, the daemon's process
ID and the current thread name and ID.
MailDomain
Domain name to qualify usernames if email address is not explicitly given with the
"--mail-user" option. If unset, the local MTA will need to qualify local address
itself.
MailProg
Fully qualified pathname to the program used to send email per user request. The
default value is "/bin/mail" (or "/usr/bin/mail" if "/bin/mail" does not exist but
"/usr/bin/mail" does exist).
MaxArraySize
The maximum job array size. The maximum job array task index value will be one
less than MaxArraySize to allow for an index value of zero. Configure MaxArraySize
to 0 in order to disable job array use. The value may not exceed 4000001. The
value of MaxJobCount should be much larger than MaxArraySize. The default value is
1001.
MaxJobCount
The maximum number of jobs Slurm can have in its active database at one time. Set
the values of MaxJobCount and MinJobAge to ensure the slurmctld daemon does not
exhaust its memory or other resources. Once this limit is reached, requests to
submit additional jobs will fail. The default value is 10000 jobs. NOTE: Each task
of a job array counts as one job even though they will not occupy separate job
records until modified or initiated. Performance can suffer with more than a few
hundred thousand jobs. Setting per MaxSubmitJobs per user is generally valuable to
prevent a single user from filling the system with jobs. This is accomplished
using Slurm's database and configuring enforcement of resource limits. This value
may not be reset via "scontrol reconfig". It only takes effect upon restart of the
slurmctld daemon.
MaxJobId
The maximum job id to be used for jobs submitted to Slurm without a specific
requested value. Job ids are unsigned 32bit integers with the first 26 bits
reserved for local job ids and the remaining 6 bits reserved for a cluster id to
identify a federated job's origin. The maximun allowed local job id is 67,108,863
(0x3FFFFFF). The default value is 67,043,328 (0x03ff0000). MaxJobId only applies
to the local job id and not the federated job id. Job id values generated will be
incremented by 1 for each subsequent job. Once MaxJobId is reached, the next job
will be assigned FirstJobId. Federated jobs will always have a job ID of
67,108,865 or higher. Also see FirstJobId.
MaxMemPerCPU
Maximum real memory size available per allocated CPU in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. MaxMemPerCPU would generally be used
if individual processors are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/cons_res or
SelectType=select/cons_tres). The default value is 0 (unlimited). Also see
DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerGPU and MaxMemPerNode. MaxMemPerCPU and MaxMemPerNode are
mutually exclusive.
NOTE: If a job specifies a memory per CPU limit that exceeds this system limit,
that job's count of CPUs per task will automatically be increased. This may result
in the job failing due to CPU count limits.
MaxMemPerNode
Maximum real memory size available per allocated node in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. MaxMemPerNode would generally be used
if whole nodes are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/linear) and resources are
over-subscribed (OverSubscribe=yes or OverSubscribe=force). The default value is 0
(unlimited). Also see DefMemPerNode and MaxMemPerCPU. MaxMemPerCPU and
MaxMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
MaxStepCount
The maximum number of steps that any job can initiate. This parameter is intended
to limit the effect of bad batch scripts. The default value is 40000 steps.
MaxTasksPerNode
Maximum number of tasks Slurm will allow a job step to spawn on a single node. The
default MaxTasksPerNode is 512. May not exceed 65533.
MCSParameters
MCS = Multi-Category Security MCS Plugin Parameters. The supported parameters are
specific to the MCSPlugin. Changes to this value take effect when the Slurm
daemons are reconfigured. More information about MCS is available here
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/mcs.html>.
MCSPlugin
MCS = Multi-Category Security : associate a security label to jobs and ensure that
nodes can only be shared among jobs using the same security label. Acceptable
values include:
mcs/none is the default value. No security label associated with jobs, no
particular security restriction when sharing nodes among jobs.
mcs/account only users with the same account can share the nodes (requires enabling
of accounting).
mcs/group only users with the same group can share the nodes.
mcs/user a node cannot be shared with other users.
MemLimitEnforce
If set to yes then Slurm will terminate the job if it exceeds the value requested
using the --mem-per-cpu option of salloc/sbatch/srun. This is useful in
combination with JobAcctGatherParams=OverMemoryKill. Used when jobs need to
specify --mem-per-cpu for scheduling and they should be terminated if they exceed
the estimated value. The default value is 'no', which disables this enforcing
mechanism. NOTE: It is recommended to limit memory by enabling task/cgroup in
TaskPlugin and making use of ConstrainRAMSpace=yes cgroup.conf instead of using
this JobAcctGather mechanism for memory enforcement, since the former has a lower
resolution (JobAcctGatherFreq) and OOMs could happen at some point.
MessageTimeout
Time permitted for a round-trip communication to complete in seconds. Default value
is 10 seconds. For systems with shared nodes, the slurmd daemon could be paged out
and necessitate higher values.
MinJobAge
The minimum age of a completed job before its record is purged from Slurm's active
database. Set the values of MaxJobCount and to ensure the slurmctld daemon does not
exhaust its memory or other resources. The default value is 300 seconds. A value
of zero prevents any job record purging. Jobs are not purged during a backfill
cycle, so it can take longer than MinJobAge seconds to purge a job if using the
backfill scheduling plugin. In order to eliminate some possible race conditions,
the minimum non-zero value for MinJobAge recommended is 2.
MpiDefault
Identifies the default type of MPI to be used. Srun may override this
configuration parameter in any case. Currently supported versions include:
openmpi, pmi2, pmix, and none (default, which works for many other versions of
MPI). More information about MPI use is available here
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/mpi_guide.html>.
MpiParams
MPI parameters. Used to identify ports used by older versions of OpenMPI and
native Cray systems. The input format is "ports=12000-12999" to identify a range
of communication ports to be used. NOTE: This is not needed for modern versions of
OpenMPI, taking it out can cause a small boost in scheduling performance. NOTE:
This is require for Cray's PMI.
MsgAggregationParams
Message aggregation parameters. Message aggregation is an optional feature that may
improve system performance by reducing the number of separate messages passed
between nodes. The feature works by routing messages through one or more message
collector nodes between their source and destination nodes. At each collector node,
messages with the same destination received during a defined message collection
window are packaged into a single composite message. When the window expires, the
composite message is sent to the next collector node on the route to its
destination. The route between each source and destination node is provided by the
Route plugin. When a composite message is received at its destination node, the
original messages are extracted and processed as if they had been sent directly.
Currently, the only message types supported by message aggregation are the node
registration, batch script completion, step completion, and epilog complete
messages.
Since the aggregation node address is set resolving the hostname at slurmd start in
each node, using this feature in non-flat networks is not possible. For example,
if slurmctld is in a different subnetwork than compute nodes and node addresses are
resolved differently the controller than in the compute nodes, you may face
communication issues. In some cases it may be useful to set
CommunicationParameters=NoInAddrAny to make all daemons communicate through the
same network.
The format for this parameter is as follows:
MsgAggregationParams=<option>=<value>
where <option>=<value> specify a particular control variable. Multiple,
comma-separated <option>=<value> pairs may be specified. Supported
options are as follows:
WindowMsgs=<number>
where <number> is the maximum number of messages in each message
collection window.
WindowTime=<time>
where <time> is the maximum elapsed time in milliseconds of each
message collection window.
A window expires when either WindowMsgs or WindowTime is
reached. By default, message aggregation is disabled. To enable the feature, set
WindowMsgs to a value greater than 1. The default value for WindowTime is 100
milliseconds.
OverTimeLimit
Number of minutes by which a job can exceed its time limit before being canceled.
Normally a job's time limit is treated as a hard limit and the job will be killed
upon reaching that limit. Configuring OverTimeLimit will result in the job's time
limit being treated like a soft limit. Adding the OverTimeLimit value to the soft
time limit provides a hard time limit, at which point the job is canceled. This is
particularly useful for backfill scheduling, which bases upon each job's soft time
limit. The default value is zero. May not exceed exceed 65533 minutes. A value
of "UNLIMITED" is also supported.
PluginDir
Identifies the places in which to look for Slurm plugins. This is a
colon-separated list of directories, like the PATH environment variable. The
default value is "/usr/local/lib/slurm".
PlugStackConfig
Location of the config file for Slurm stackable plugins that use the Stackable
Plugin Architecture for Node job (K)control (SPANK). This provides support for a
highly configurable set of plugins to be called before and/or after execution of
each task spawned as part of a user's job step. Default location is
"plugstack.conf" in the same directory as the system slurm.conf. For more
information on SPANK plugins, see the spank(8) manual.
PowerParameters
System power management parameters. The supported parameters are specific to the
PowerPlugin. Changes to this value take effect when the Slurm daemons are
reconfigured. More information about system power management is available here
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/power_mgmt.html>. Options current supported by any
plugins are listed below.
balance_interval=#
Specifies the time interval, in seconds, between attempts to rebalance power
caps across the nodes. This also controls the frequency at which Slurm
attempts to collect current power consumption data (old data may be used
until new data is available from the underlying infrastructure and values
below 10 seconds are not recommended for Cray systems). The default value
is 30 seconds. Supported by the power/cray_aries plugin.
capmc_path=
Specifies the absolute path of the capmc command. The default value is
"/opt/cray/capmc/default/bin/capmc". Supported by the power/cray_aries
plugin.
cap_watts=#
Specifies the total power limit to be established across all compute nodes
managed by Slurm. A value of 0 sets every compute node to have an unlimited
cap. The default value is 0. Supported by the power/cray_aries plugin.
decrease_rate=#
Specifies the maximum rate of change in the power cap for a node where the
actual power usage is below the power cap by an amount greater than
lower_threshold (see below). Value represents a percentage of the
difference between a node's minimum and maximum power consumption. The
default value is 50 percent. Supported by the power/cray_aries plugin.
get_timeout=#
Amount of time allowed to get power state information in milliseconds. The
default value is 5,000 milliseconds or 5 seconds. Supported by the
power/cray_aries plugin and represents the time allowed for the capmc
command to respond to various "get" options.
increase_rate=#
Specifies the maximum rate of change in the power cap for a node where the
actual power usage is within upper_threshold (see below) of the power cap.
Value represents a percentage of the difference between a node's minimum and
maximum power consumption. The default value is 20 percent. Supported by
the power/cray_aries plugin.
job_level
All nodes associated with every job will have the same power cap, to the
extent possible. Also see the --power=level option on the job submission
commands.
job_no_level
Disable the user's ability to set every node associated with a job to the
same power cap. Each node will have it's power cap set independently. This
disables the --power=level option on the job submission commands.
lower_threshold=#
Specify a lower power consumption threshold. If a node's current power
consumption is below this percentage of its current cap, then its power cap
will be reduced. The default value is 90 percent. Supported by the
power/cray_aries plugin.
recent_job=#
If a job has started or resumed execution (from suspend) on a compute node
within this number of seconds from the current time, the node's power cap
will be increased to the maximum. The default value is 300 seconds.
Supported by the power/cray_aries plugin.
set_timeout=#
Amount of time allowed to set power state information in milliseconds. The
default value is 30,000 milliseconds or 30 seconds. Supported by the
power/cray plugin and represents the time allowed for the capmc command to
respond to various "set" options.
set_watts=#
Specifies the power limit to be set on every compute nodes managed by Slurm.
Every node gets this same power cap and there is no variation through time
based upon actual power usage on the node. Supported by the
power/cray_aries plugin.
upper_threshold=#
Specify an upper power consumption threshold. If a node's current power
consumption is above this percentage of its current cap, then its power cap
will be increased to the extent possible. The default value is 95 percent.
Supported by the power/cray_aries plugin.
PowerPlugin
Identifies the plugin used for system power management. Currently supported
plugins include: cray_aries and none. Changes to this value require restarting
Slurm daemons to take effect. More information about system power management is
available here <https://slurm.schedmd.com/power_mgmt.html>. By default, no power
plugin is loaded.
PreemptMode
Enables gang scheduling and/or controls the mechanism used to preempt jobs. When
the PreemptType parameter is set to enable preemption, the PreemptMode selects the
default mechanism used to preempt the lower priority jobs for the cluster.
PreemptMode may be specified on a per partition basis to override this default
value if PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio, but a valid default PreemptMode value
must be specified for the cluster as a whole when preemption is enabled. The GANG
option is used to enable gang scheduling independent of whether preemption is
enabled (the PreemptType setting). The GANG option can be specified in addition to
a PreemptMode setting with the two options comma separated. The SUSPEND option
requires that gang scheduling be enabled (i.e, "PreemptMode=SUSPEND,GANG"). NOTE:
For performance reasons, the backfill scheduler reserves whole nodes for jobs, not
partial nodes. If during backfill scheduling a job preempts one or more other jobs,
the whole nodes for those preempted jobs are reserved for the preemptor job, even
if the preemptor job requested fewer resources than that. These reserved nodes
aren't available to other jobs during that backfill cycle, even if the other jobs
could fit on the nodes. Therefore, jobs may preempt more resources during a single
backfill iteration than they requested.
OFF is the default value and disables job preemption and gang scheduling.
CANCEL always cancel the job.
CHECKPOINT preempts jobs by checkpointing them (if possible) or canceling them.
GANG enables gang scheduling (time slicing) of jobs in the same partition.
NOTE: Gang scheduling is performed independently for each partition, so
configuring partitions with overlapping nodes and gang scheduling is
generally not recommended.
REQUEUE preempts jobs by requeuing them (if possible) or canceling them. For
jobs to be requeued they must have the --requeue sbatch option set or
the cluster wide JobRequeue parameter in slurm.conf must be set to one.
SUSPEND If PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio is configured then suspend and
automatically resume the low priority jobs. If PreemptType=preempt/qos
is configured, then the jobs sharing resources will always time slice
rather than one job remaining suspended. The SUSPEND may only be used
with the GANG option (the gang scheduler module performs the job resume
operation).
PreemptType
This specifies the plugin used to identify which jobs can be preempted in order to
start a pending job.
preempt/none
Job preemption is disabled. This is the default.
preempt/partition_prio
Job preemption is based upon partition priority tier. Jobs in higher
priority partitions (queues) may preempt jobs from lower priority
partitions. This is not compatible with PreemptMode=OFF.
preempt/qos
Job preemption rules are specified by Quality Of Service (QOS)
specifications in the Slurm database. This option is not compatible with
PreemptMode=OFF. A configuration of PreemptMode=SUSPEND is only supported
by the SelectType=select/cons_res and SelectType=select/cons_tres plugins.
PreemptExemptTime
Global option for minimum run time for all jobs before they can be considered for
preemption. Any QOS PreemptExemptTime takes precedence over the global option. A
time of -1 disables the option, equivalent to 0. Acceptable time formats include
"minutes", "minutes:seconds", "hours:minutes:seconds", "days-hours",
"days-hours:minutes", and "days-hours:minutes:seconds".
PriorityCalcPeriod
The period of time in minutes in which the half-life decay will be re-calculated.
Applicable only if PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The default value is 5
(minutes).
PriorityDecayHalfLife
This controls how long prior resource use is considered in determining how over- or
under-serviced an association is (user, bank account and cluster) in determining
job priority. The record of usage will be decayed over time, with half of the
original value cleared at age PriorityDecayHalfLife. If set to 0 no decay will be
applied. This is helpful if you want to enforce hard time limits per association.
If set to 0 PriorityUsageResetPeriod must be set to some interval. Applicable only
if PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The unit is a time string (i.e. min,
hr:min:00, days-hr:min:00, or days-hr). The default value is 7-0 (7 days).
PriorityFavorSmall
Specifies that small jobs should be given preferential scheduling priority.
Applicable only if PriorityType=priority/multifactor. Supported values are "YES"
and "NO". The default value is "NO".
PriorityFlags
Flags to modify priority behavior. Applicable only if
PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The keywords below have no associated value
(e.g. "PriorityFlags=ACCRUE_ALWAYS,SMALL_RELATIVE_TO_TIME").
ACCRUE_ALWAYS If set, priority age factor will be increased despite job
dependencies or holds.
CALCULATE_RUNNING
If set, priorities will be recalculated not only for pending jobs,
but also running and suspended jobs.
DEPTH_OBLIVIOUS If set, priority will be calculated based similar to the normal
multifactor calculation, but depth of the associations in the tree
do not adversely effect their priority. This option automatically
enables NO_FAIR_TREE.
NO_FAIR_TREE Disables the "fair tree" algorithm, and reverts to "classic" fair
share priority scheduling.
INCR_ONLY If set, priority values will only increase in value. Job priority
will never decrease in value.
MAX_TRES If set, the weighted TRES value (e.g. TRESBillingWeights) is
calculated as the MAX of individual TRES' on a node (e.g. cpus,
mem, gres) plus the sum of all global TRES' (e.g. licenses).
NO_NORMAL_ALL If set, all NO_NORMAL_* flags are set.
NO_NORMAL_ASSOC If set, the association factor is not normalized against the
highest association priority.
NO_NORMAL_PART If set, the partition factor is not normalized against the highest
partition PriorityTier.
NO_NORMAL_QOS If set, the QOS factor is not normalized against the highest qos
priority.
NO_NORMAL_TRES If set, the QOS factor is not normalized against the job's
partition TRES counts.
SMALL_RELATIVE_TO_TIME
If set, the job's size component will be based upon not the job
size alone, but the job's size divided by it's time limit.
PriorityMaxAge
Specifies the job age which will be given the maximum age factor in computing
priority. For example, a value of 30 minutes would result in all jobs over 30
minutes old would get the same age-based priority. Applicable only if
PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The unit is a time string (i.e. min, hr:min:00,
days-hr:min:00, or days-hr). The default value is 7-0 (7 days).
PriorityParameters
Arbitrary string used by the PriorityType plugin.
PrioritySiteFactorParameters
Arbitrary string used by the PrioritySiteFactorPlugin plugin.
PrioritySiteFactorPlugin
The specifies an optional plugin to be used alongside "priority/multifactor", which
is meant to initially set and continuously update the SiteFactor priority factor.
The default value is "site_factor/none".
PriorityType
This specifies the plugin to be used in establishing a job's scheduling priority.
Supported values are "priority/basic" (jobs are prioritized by order of arrival),
"priority/multifactor" (jobs are prioritized based upon size, age, fair-share of
allocation, etc). Also see PriorityFlags for configuration options. The default
value is "priority/basic".
When not FIFO scheduling, jobs are prioritized in the following order:
1. Jobs that can preempt
2. Jobs with an advanced reservation
3. Partition Priority Tier
4. Job Priority
5. Job Id
PriorityUsageResetPeriod
At this interval the usage of associations will be reset to 0. This is used if you
want to enforce hard limits of time usage per association. If
PriorityDecayHalfLife is set to be 0 no decay will happen and this is the only way
to reset the usage accumulated by running jobs. By default this is turned off and
it is advised to use the PriorityDecayHalfLife option to avoid not having anything
running on your cluster, but if your schema is set up to only allow certain amounts
of time on your system this is the way to do it. Applicable only if
PriorityType=priority/multifactor.
NONE Never clear historic usage. The default value.
NOW Clear the historic usage now. Executed at startup and reconfiguration
time.
DAILY Cleared every day at midnight.
WEEKLY Cleared every week on Sunday at time 00:00.
MONTHLY Cleared on the first day of each month at time 00:00.
QUARTERLY Cleared on the first day of each quarter at time 00:00.
YEARLY Cleared on the first day of each year at time 00:00.
PriorityWeightAge
An integer value that sets the degree to which the queue wait time component
contributes to the job's priority. Applicable only if
PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The default value is 0.
PriorityWeightAssoc
An integer value that sets the degree to which the association component
contributes to the job's priority. Applicable only if
PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The default value is 0.
PriorityWeightFairshare
An integer value that sets the degree to which the fair-share component contributes
to the job's priority. Applicable only if PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The
default value is 0.
PriorityWeightJobSize
An integer value that sets the degree to which the job size component contributes
to the job's priority. Applicable only if PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The
default value is 0.
PriorityWeightPartition
Partition factor used by priority/multifactor plugin in calculating job priority.
Applicable only if PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The default value is 0.
PriorityWeightQOS
An integer value that sets the degree to which the Quality Of Service component
contributes to the job's priority. Applicable only if
PriorityType=priority/multifactor. The default value is 0.
PriorityWeightTRES
A comma separated list of TRES Types and weights that sets the degree that each
TRES Type contributes to the job's priority.
e.g.
PriorityWeightTRES=CPU=1000,Mem=2000,GRES/gpu=3000
Applicable only if PriorityType=priority/multifactor and if AccountingStorageTRES
is configured with each TRES Type. Negative values are allowed. The default
values are 0.
PrivateData
This controls what type of information is hidden from regular users. By default,
all information is visible to all users. User SlurmUser and root can always view
all information. Multiple values may be specified with a comma separator.
Acceptable values include:
accounts
(NON-SlurmDBD ACCOUNTING ONLY) Prevents users from viewing any account
definitions unless they are coordinators of them.
cloud Powered down nodes in the cloud are visible.
events prevents users from viewing event information unless they have operator
status or above.
jobs Prevents users from viewing jobs or job steps belonging to other users.
(NON-SlurmDBD ACCOUNTING ONLY) Prevents users from viewing job records
belonging to other users unless they are coordinators of the association
running the job when using sacct.
nodes Prevents users from viewing node state information.
partitions
Prevents users from viewing partition state information.
reservations
Prevents regular users from viewing reservations which they can not use.
usage Prevents users from viewing usage of any other user, this applies to sshare.
(NON-SlurmDBD ACCOUNTING ONLY) Prevents users from viewing usage of any
other user, this applies to sreport.
users (NON-SlurmDBD ACCOUNTING ONLY) Prevents users from viewing information of
any user other than themselves, this also makes it so users can only see
associations they deal with. Coordinators can see associations of all users
they are coordinator of, but can only see themselves when listing users.
ProctrackType
Identifies the plugin to be used for process tracking on a job step basis. The
slurmd daemon uses this mechanism to identify all processes which are children of
processes it spawns for a user job step. The slurmd daemon must be restarted for a
change in ProctrackType to take effect. NOTE: "proctrack/linuxproc" and
"proctrack/pgid" can fail to identify all processes associated with a job since
processes can become a child of the init process (when the parent process
terminates) or change their process group. To reliably track all processes,
"proctrack/cgroup" is highly recommended. NOTE: The JobContainerType applies to a
job allocation, while ProctrackType applies to job steps. Acceptable values at
present include:
proctrack/cgroup which uses linux cgroups to constrain and track processes, and
is the default. NOTE: see "man cgroup.conf" for configuration
details
proctrack/cray_aries
which uses Cray proprietary process tracking
proctrack/linuxproc which uses linux process tree using parent process IDs.
proctrack/pgid which uses process group IDs
Prolog Fully qualified pathname of a program for the slurmd to execute whenever it is
asked to run a job step from a new job allocation (e.g.
"/usr/local/slurm/prolog"). A glob pattern (See glob (7)) may also be used to
specify more than one program to run (e.g. "/etc/slurm/prolog.d/*"). The slurmd
executes the prolog before starting the first job step. The prolog script or
scripts may be used to purge files, enable user login, etc. By default there is no
prolog. Any configured script is expected to complete execution quickly (in less
time than MessageTimeout). If the prolog fails (returns a non-zero exit code),
this will result in the node being set to a DRAIN state and the job being requeued
in a held state, unless nohold_on_prolog_fail is configured in SchedulerParameters.
See Prolog and Epilog Scripts for more information.
PrologEpilogTimeout
The interval in seconds Slurms waits for Prolog and Epilog before terminating them.
The default behavior is to wait indefinitely. This interval applies to the Prolog
and Epilog run by slurmd daemon before and after the job, the PrologSlurmctld and
EpilogSlurmctld run by slurmctld daemon, and the SPANK plugins run by the
slurmstepd daemon.
PrologFlags
Flags to control the Prolog behavior. By default no flags are set. Multiple flags
may be specified in a comma-separated list. Currently supported options are:
Alloc If set, the Prolog script will be executed at job allocation. By default,
Prolog is executed just before the task is launched. Therefore, when salloc
is started, no Prolog is executed. Alloc is useful for preparing things
before a user starts to use any allocated resources. In particular, this
flag is needed on a Cray system when cluster compatibility mode is enabled.
NOTE: Use of the Alloc flag will increase the time required to start jobs.
Contain At job allocation time, use the ProcTrack plugin to create a job container
on all allocated compute nodes. This container may be used for user
processes not launched under Slurm control, for example pam_slurm_adopt may
place processes launched through a direct user login into this container.
If using pam_slurm_adopt, then ProcTrackType must be set to either
proctrack/cgroup or proctrack/cray_aries. Setting the Contain implicitly
sets the Alloc flag.
NoHold If set, the Alloc flag should also be set. This will allow for salloc to
not block until the prolog is finished on each node. The blocking will
happen when steps reach the slurmd and before any execution has happened in
the step. This is a much faster way to work and if using srun to launch
your tasks you should use this flag. This flag cannot be combined with the
Contain or X11 flags.
Serial By default, the Prolog and Epilog scripts run concurrently on each node.
This flag forces those scripts to run serially within each node, but with a
significant penalty to job throughput on each node.
X11 Enable Slurm's built-in X11 forwarding capabilities. This is incompatible
with ProctrackType=proctrack/linuxproc. Setting the X11 flag implicitly
enables both Contain and Alloc flags as well.
PrologSlurmctld
Fully qualified pathname of a program for the slurmctld daemon to execute before
granting a new job allocation (e.g. "/usr/local/slurm/prolog_controller"). The
program executes as SlurmUser on the same node where the slurmctld daemon executes,
giving it permission to drain nodes and requeue the job if a failure occurs or
cancel the job if appropriate. The program can be used to reboot nodes or perform
other work to prepare resources for use. Exactly what the program does and how it
accomplishes this is completely at the discretion of the system administrator.
Information about the job being initiated, it's allocated nodes, etc. are passed to
the program using environment variables. While this program is running, the nodes
associated with the job will be have a POWER_UP/CONFIGURING flag set in their
state, which can be readily viewed. The slurmctld daemon will wait indefinitely
for this program to complete. Once the program completes with an exit code of
zero, the nodes will be considered ready for use and the program will be started.
If some node can not be made available for use, the program should drain the node
(typically using the scontrol command) and terminate with a non-zero exit code. A
non-zero exit code will result in the job being requeued (where possible) or
killed. Note that only batch jobs can be requeued. See Prolog and Epilog Scripts
for more information.
PropagatePrioProcess
Controls the scheduling priority (nice value) of user spawned tasks.
0 The tasks will inherit the scheduling priority from the slurm daemon. This is
the default value.
1 The tasks will inherit the scheduling priority of the command used to submit
them (e.g. srun or sbatch). Unless the job is submitted by user root, the
tasks will have a scheduling priority no higher than the slurm daemon spawning
them.
2 The tasks will inherit the scheduling priority of the command used to submit
them (e.g. srun or sbatch) with the restriction that their nice value will
always be one higher than the slurm daemon (i.e. the tasks scheduling
priority will be lower than the slurm daemon).
PropagateResourceLimits
A list of comma separated resource limit names. The slurmd daemon uses these names
to obtain the associated (soft) limit values from the user's process environment on
the submit node. These limits are then propagated and applied to the jobs that
will run on the compute nodes. This parameter can be useful when system limits
vary among nodes. Any resource limits that do not appear in the list are not
propagated. However, the user can override this by specifying which resource
limits to propagate with the sbatch or srun "--propagate" option. If neither
PropagateResourceLimits or PropagateResourceLimitsExcept are configured and the
"--propagate" option is not specified, then the default action is to propagate all
limits. Only one of the parameters, either PropagateResourceLimits or
PropagateResourceLimitsExcept, may be specified. The user limits can not exceed
hard limits under which the slurmd daemon operates. If the user limits are not
propagated, the limits from the slurmd daemon will be propagated to the user's job.
The limits used for the Slurm daemons can be set in the /etc/sysconf/slurm file.
For more information, see: https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#memlock The following
limit names are supported by Slurm (although some options may not be supported on
some systems):
ALL All limits listed below (default)
NONE No limits listed below
AS The maximum address space for a process
CORE The maximum size of core file
CPU The maximum amount of CPU time
DATA The maximum size of a process's data segment
FSIZE The maximum size of files created. Note that if the user sets FSIZE to
less than the current size of the slurmd.log, job launches will fail with
a 'File size limit exceeded' error.
MEMLOCK The maximum size that may be locked into memory
NOFILE The maximum number of open files
NPROC The maximum number of processes available
RSS The maximum resident set size
STACK The maximum stack size
PropagateResourceLimitsExcept
A list of comma separated resource limit names. By default, all resource limits
will be propagated, (as described by the PropagateResourceLimits parameter), except
for the limits appearing in this list. The user can override this by specifying
which resource limits to propagate with the sbatch or srun "--propagate" option.
See PropagateResourceLimits above for a list of valid limit names.
RebootProgram
Program to be executed on each compute node to reboot it. Invoked on each node once
it becomes idle after the command "scontrol reboot_nodes" is executed by an
authorized user or a job is submitted with the "--reboot" option. After rebooting,
the node is returned to normal use. See ResumeTimeout to configure the time you
expect a reboot to finish in. A node will be marked DOWN if it doesn't reboot
within ResumeTimeout.
ReconfigFlags
Flags to control various actions that may be taken when an "scontrol reconfig"
command is issued. Currently the options are:
KeepPartInfo If set, an "scontrol reconfig" command will maintain the in-memory
value of partition "state" and other parameters that may have been
dynamically updated by "scontrol update". Partition information
in the slurm.conf file will be merged with in-memory data. This
flag supersedes the KeepPartState flag.
KeepPartState If set, an "scontrol reconfig" command will preserve only the
current "state" value of in-memory partitions and will reset all
other parameters of the partitions that may have been dynamically
updated by "scontrol update" to the values from the slurm.conf
file. Partition information in the slurm.conf file will be merged
with in-memory data.
The default for the above flags is not set, and the "scontrol reconfig" will
rebuild the partition information using only the definitions in the slurm.conf
file.
RequeueExit
Enables automatic requeue for batch jobs which exit with the specified values.
Separate multiple exit code by a comma and/or specify numeric ranges using a "-"
separator (e.g. "RequeueExit=1-9,18") Jobs will be put back in to pending state and
later scheduled again. Restarted jobs will have the environment variable
SLURM_RESTART_COUNT set to the number of times the job has been restarted.
RequeueExitHold
Enables automatic requeue for batch jobs which exit with the specified values, with
these jobs being held until released manually by the user. Separate multiple exit
code by a comma and/or specify numeric ranges using a "-" separator (e.g.
"RequeueExitHold=10-12,16") These jobs are put in the JOB_SPECIAL_EXIT exit state.
Restarted jobs will have the environment variable SLURM_RESTART_COUNT set to the
number of times the job has been restarted.
ResumeFailProgram
The program that will be executed when nodes fail to resume to by ResumeTimeout.
The argument to the program will be the names of the failed nodes (using Slurm's
hostlist expression format).
ResumeProgram
Slurm supports a mechanism to reduce power consumption on nodes that remain idle
for an extended period of time. This is typically accomplished by reducing voltage
and frequency or powering the node down. ResumeProgram is the program that will be
executed when a node in power save mode is assigned work to perform. For reasons
of reliability, ResumeProgram may execute more than once for a node when the
slurmctld daemon crashes and is restarted. If ResumeProgram is unable to restore a
node to service with a responding slurmd and an updated BootTime, it should requeue
any job associated with the node and set the node state to DOWN. If the node isn't
actually rebooted (i.e. when multiple-slurmd is configured) starting slurmd with
"-b" option might be useful. The program executes as SlurmUser. The argument to
the program will be the names of nodes to be removed from power savings mode (using
Slurm's hostlist expression format). By default no program is run. Related
configuration options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeRate, SuspendRate, SuspendTime,
SuspendTimeout, SuspendProgram, SuspendExcNodes, and SuspendExcParts. More
information is available at the Slurm web site (
https://slurm.schedmd.com/power_save.html ).
ResumeRate
The rate at which nodes in power save mode are returned to normal operation by
ResumeProgram. The value is number of nodes per minute and it can be used to
prevent power surges if a large number of nodes in power save mode are assigned
work at the same time (e.g. a large job starts). A value of zero results in no
limits being imposed. The default value is 300 nodes per minute. Related
configuration options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeProgram, SuspendRate,
SuspendTime, SuspendTimeout, SuspendProgram, SuspendExcNodes, and SuspendExcParts.
ResumeTimeout
Maximum time permitted (in seconds) between when a node resume request is issued
and when the node is actually available for use. Nodes which fail to respond in
this time frame will be marked DOWN and the jobs scheduled on the node requeued.
Nodes which reboot after this time frame will be marked DOWN with a reason of "Node
unexpectedly rebooted." The default value is 60 seconds. Related configuration
options include ResumeProgram, ResumeRate, SuspendRate, SuspendTime,
SuspendTimeout, SuspendProgram, SuspendExcNodes and SuspendExcParts. More
information is available at the Slurm web site (
https://slurm.schedmd.com/power_save.html ).
ResvEpilog
Fully qualified pathname of a program for the slurmctld to execute when a
reservation ends. The program can be used to cancel jobs, modify partition
configuration, etc. The reservation named will be passed as an argument to the
program. By default there is no epilog.
ResvOverRun
Describes how long a job already running in a reservation should be permitted to
execute after the end time of the reservation has been reached. The time period is
specified in minutes and the default value is 0 (kill the job immediately). The
value may not exceed 65533 minutes, although a value of "UNLIMITED" is supported to
permit a job to run indefinitely after its reservation is terminated.
ResvProlog
Fully qualified pathname of a program for the slurmctld to execute when a
reservation begins. The program can be used to cancel jobs, modify partition
configuration, etc. The reservation named will be passed as an argument to the
program. By default there is no prolog.
ReturnToService
Controls when a DOWN node will be returned to service. The default value is 0.
Supported values include
0 A node will remain in the DOWN state until a system administrator explicitly
changes its state (even if the slurmd daemon registers and resumes
communications).
1 A DOWN node will become available for use upon registration with a valid
configuration only if it was set DOWN due to being non-responsive. If the node
was set DOWN for any other reason (low memory, unexpected reboot, etc.), its
state will not automatically be changed. A node registers with a valid
configuration if its memory, GRES, CPU count, etc. are equal to or greater than
the values configured in slurm.conf.
2 A DOWN node will become available for use upon registration with a valid
configuration. The node could have been set DOWN for any reason. A node
registers with a valid configuration if its memory, GRES, CPU count, etc. are
equal to or greater than the values configured in slurm.conf. (Disabled on
Cray ALPS systems.)
RoutePlugin
Identifies the plugin to be used for defining which nodes will be used for message
forwarding and message aggregation.
route/default
default, use TreeWidth.
route/topology
use the switch hierarchy defined in a topology.conf file.
TopologyPlugin=topology/tree is required.
SallocDefaultCommand
Normally, salloc(1) will run the user's default shell when a command to execute is
not specified on the salloc command line. If SallocDefaultCommand is specified,
salloc will instead run the configured command. The command is passed to '/bin/sh
-c', so shell metacharacters are allowed, and commands with multiple arguments
should be quoted. For instance:
SallocDefaultCommand = "$SHELL"
would run the shell in the user's $SHELL environment variable. and
SallocDefaultCommand = "srun -n1 -N1 --mem-per-cpu=0 --pty --preserve-env --mpi=none $SHELL"
would run spawn the user's default shell on the allocated resources, but not
consume any of the CPU or memory resources, configure it as a pseudo-terminal, and
preserve all of the job's environment variables (i.e. and not over-write them with
the job step's allocation information).
For systems with generic resources (GRES) defined, the SallocDefaultCommand value
should explicitly specify a zero count for the configured GRES. Failure to do so
will result in the launched shell consuming those GRES and preventing subsequent
srun commands from using them. For example, on Cray systems add
"--gres=craynetwork:0" as shown below:
SallocDefaultCommand = "srun -n1 -N1 --mem-per-cpu=0 --gres=craynetwork:0 --pty --preserve-env --mpi=none $SHELL"
For systems with TaskPlugin set, adding an option of "--cpu-bind=no" is recommended
if the default shell should have access to all of the CPUs allocated to the job on
that node, otherwise the shell may be limited to a single cpu or core.
SbcastParameters
Controls sbcast command behavior. Multiple options can be specified in a comma
separated list. Supported values include:
DestDir= Destination directory for file being broadcast to allocated compute
nodes. Default value is current working directory.
Compression= Specify default file compression library to be used. Supported
values are "lz4", "none" and "zlib". The default value with the
sbcast --compress option is "lz4" and "none" otherwise. Some
compression libraries may be unavailable on some systems.
SchedulerParameters
The interpretation of this parameter varies by SchedulerType. Multiple options may
be comma separated.
allow_zero_lic
If set, then job submissions requesting more than configured licenses won't
be rejected.
assoc_limit_stop
If set and a job cannot start due to association limits, then do not attempt
to initiate any lower priority jobs in that partition. Setting this can
decrease system throughput and utilization, but avoid potentially starving
larger jobs by preventing them from launching indefinitely.
batch_sched_delay=#
How long, in seconds, the scheduling of batch jobs can be delayed. This can
be useful in a high-throughput environment in which batch jobs are submitted
at a very high rate (i.e. using the sbatch command) and one wishes to reduce
the overhead of attempting to schedule each job at submit time. The default
value is 3 seconds.
bb_array_stage_cnt=#
Number of tasks from a job array that should be available for burst buffer
resource allocation. Higher values will increase the system overhead as each
task from the job array will be moved to it's own job record in memory, so
relatively small values are generally recommended. The default value is 10.
bf_busy_nodes
When selecting resources for pending jobs to reserve for future execution
(i.e. the job can not be started immediately), then preferentially select
nodes that are in use. This will tend to leave currently idle resources
available for backfilling longer running jobs, but may result in allocations
having less than optimal network topology. This option is currently only
supported by the select/cons_res and select/cons_tres plugins (or
select/cray_aries with SelectTypeParameters set to "OTHER_CONS_RES" or
"OTHER_CONS_TRES", which layers the select/cray_aries plugin over the
select/cons_res or select/cons_tres plugin respectively).
bf_continue
The backfill scheduler periodically releases locks in order to permit other
operations to proceed rather than blocking all activity for what could be an
extended period of time. Setting this option will cause the backfill
scheduler to continue processing pending jobs from its original job list
after releasing locks even if job or node state changes. This can result in
lower priority jobs being backfill scheduled instead of newly arrived higher
priority jobs, but will permit more queued jobs to be considered for
backfill scheduling.
bf_hetjob_immediate
Instruct the backfill scheduler to attempt to start a heterogeneous job as
soon as all of its components are determined able to do so. Otherwise, the
backfill scheduler will delay heterogeneous jobs initiation attempts until
after the rest of the queue has been processed. This delay may result in
lower priority jobs being allocated resources, which could delay the
initiation of the heterogeneous job due to account and/or QOS limits being
reached. This option is disabled by default. If enabled and
bf_hetjob_prio=min is not set, then it would be automatically set.
bf_hetjob_prio=[min|avg|max]
At the beginning of each backfill scheduling cycle, a list of pending to be
scheduled jobs is sorted according to the precedence order configured in
PriorityType. This option instructs the scheduler to alter the sorting
algorithm to ensure that all components belonging to the same heterogeneous
job will be attempted to be scheduled consecutively (thus not fragmented in
the resulting list). More specifically, all components from the same
heterogeneous job will be treated as if they all have the same priority
(minimum, average or maximum depending upon this option's parameter) when
compared with other jobs (or other heterogeneous job components). The
original order will be preserved within the same heterogeneous job. Note
that the operation is calculated for the PriorityTier layer and for the
Priority resulting from the priority/multifactor plugin calculations. When
enabled, if any heterogeneous job requested an advanced reservation, then
all of that job's components will be treated as if they had requested an
advanced reservation (and get preferential treatment in scheduling).
Note that this operation does not update the Priority values of the
heterogeneous job components, only their order within the list, so the
output of the sprio command will not be effected.
Heterogeneous jobs have special scheduling properties: they are only
scheduled by the backfill scheduling plugin, each of their components is
considered separately when reserving resources (and might have different
PriorityTier or different Priority values), and no heterogeneous job
component is actually allocated resources until all if its components can be
initiated. This may imply potential scheduling deadlock scenarios because
components from different heterogeneous jobs can start reserving resources
in an interleaved fashion (not consecutively), but none of the jobs can
reserve resources for all components and start. Enabling this option can
help to mitigate this problem. By default, this option is disabled.
bf_ignore_newly_avail_nodes
If set, then only resources available at the beginning of a backfill cycle
will be considered for use. Otherwise resources made available during that
backfill cycle (during a yield with bf_continue set) may be used for lower
priority jobs, delaying the initiation of higher priority jobs. Disabled by
default.
bf_interval=#
The number of seconds between backfill iterations. Higher values result in
less overhead and better responsiveness. This option applies only to
SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Default: 30, Min: 1, Max: 10800 (3h).
bf_job_part_count_reserve=#
The backfill scheduling logic will reserve resources for the specified count
of highest priority jobs in each partition. For example,
bf_job_part_count_reserve=10 will cause the backfill scheduler to reserve
resources for the ten highest priority jobs in each partition. Any lower
priority job that can be started using currently available resources and not
adversely impact the expected start time of these higher priority jobs will
be started by the backfill scheduler The default value is zero, which will
reserve resources for any pending job and delay initiation of lower priority
jobs. Also see bf_min_age_reserve and bf_min_prio_reserve. Default: 0,
Min: 0, Max: 100000.
bf_max_job_array_resv=#
The maximum number of tasks from a job array for which the backfill
scheduler will reserve resources in the future. Since job arrays can
potentially have millions of tasks, the overhead in reserving resources for
all tasks can be prohibitive. In addition various limits may prevent all
the jobs from starting at the expected times. This has no impact upon the
number of tasks from a job array that can be started immediately, only those
tasks expected to start at some future time. Default: 20, Min: 0, Max:
1000. NOTE: Jobs submitted to multiple partitions appear in the job queue
once per partition. If different copies of a single job array record aren't
consecutive in the job queue and another job array record is in between,
then bf_max_job_array_resv tasks are considered per partition that the job
is submitted to.
bf_max_job_assoc=#
The maximum number of jobs per user association to attempt starting with the
backfill scheduler. This setting is similar to bf_max_job_user but is handy
if a user has multiple associations equating to basically different users.
One can set this limit to prevent users from flooding the backfill queue
with jobs that cannot start and that prevent jobs from other users to start.
This option applies only to SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Also see the
bf_max_job_user bf_max_job_part, bf_max_job_test and bf_max_job_user_part=#
options. Set bf_max_job_test to a value much higher than bf_max_job_assoc.
Default: 0 (no limit), Min: 0, Max: bf_max_job_test.
bf_max_job_part=#
The maximum number of jobs per partition to attempt starting with the
backfill scheduler. This can be especially helpful for systems with large
numbers of partitions and jobs. This option applies only to
SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Also see the partition_job_depth and
bf_max_job_test options. Set bf_max_job_test to a value much higher than
bf_max_job_part. Default: 0 (no limit), Min: 0, Max: bf_max_job_test.
bf_max_job_start=#
The maximum number of jobs which can be initiated in a single iteration of
the backfill scheduler. This option applies only to
SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Default: 0 (no limit), Min: 0, Max: 10000.
bf_max_job_test=#
The maximum number of jobs to attempt backfill scheduling for (i.e. the
queue depth). Higher values result in more overhead and less
responsiveness. Until an attempt is made to backfill schedule a job, its
expected initiation time value will not be set. In the case of large
clusters, configuring a relatively small value may be desirable. This
option applies only to SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Default: 100, Min: 1,
Max: 1,000,000.
bf_max_job_user=#
The maximum number of jobs per user to attempt starting with the backfill
scheduler for ALL partitions. One can set this limit to prevent users from
flooding the backfill queue with jobs that cannot start and that prevent
jobs from other users to start. This is similar to the MAXIJOB limit in
Maui. This option applies only to SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Also see
the bf_max_job_part, bf_max_job_test and bf_max_job_user_part=# options.
Set bf_max_job_test to a value much higher than bf_max_job_user. Default: 0
(no limit), Min: 0, Max: bf_max_job_test.
bf_max_job_user_part=#
The maximum number of jobs per user per partition to attempt starting with
the backfill scheduler for any single partition. This option applies only
to SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Also see the bf_max_job_part,
bf_max_job_test and bf_max_job_user=# options. Default: 0 (no limit), Min:
0, Max: bf_max_job_test.
bf_max_time=#
The maximum time in seconds the backfill scheduler can spend (including time
spent sleeping when locks are released) before discontinuing, even if
maximum job counts have not been reached. This option applies only to
SchedulerType=sched/backfill. The default value is the value of bf_interval
(which defaults to 30 seconds). Default: bf_interval value (def. 30 sec),
Min: 1, Max: 3600 (1h). NOTE: If bf_interval is short and bf_max_time is
large, this may cause locks to be acquired too frequently and starve out
other serviced RPCs. It's advisable if using this parameter to set
max_rpc_cnt high enough that scheduling isn't always disabled, and low
enough that the interactive workload can get through in a reasonable period
of time. max_rpc_cnt needs to be below 256 (the default RPC thread limit).
Running around the middle (150) may give you good results. NOTE: When
increasing the amount of time spent in the backfill scheduling cycle, Slurm
can be prevented from responding to client requests in a timely manner. To
address this you can use max_rpc_cnt to specify a number of queued RPCs
before the scheduler stops to respond to these requests.
bf_min_age_reserve=#
The backfill and main scheduling logic will not reserve resources for
pending jobs until they have been pending and runnable for at least the
specified number of seconds. In addition, jobs waiting for less than the
specified number of seconds will not prevent a newly submitted job from
starting immediately, even if the newly submitted job has a lower priority.
This can be valuable if jobs lack time limits or all time limits have the
same value. The default value is zero, which will reserve resources for any
pending job and delay initiation of lower priority jobs. Also see
bf_job_part_count_reserve and bf_min_prio_reserve. Default: 0, Min: 0, Max:
2592000 (30 days).
bf_min_prio_reserve=#
The backfill and main scheduling logic will not reserve resources for
pending jobs unless they have a priority equal to or higher than the
specified value. In addition, jobs with a lower priority will not prevent a
newly submitted job from starting immediately, even if the newly submitted
job has a lower priority. This can be valuable if one wished to maximum
system utilization without regard for job priority below a certain
threshold. The default value is zero, which will reserve resources for any
pending job and delay initiation of lower priority jobs. Also see
bf_job_part_count_reserve and bf_min_age_reserve. Default: 0, Min: 0, Max:
2^63.
bf_resolution=#
The number of seconds in the resolution of data maintained about when jobs
begin and end. Higher values result in less overhead and better
responsiveness. This option applies only to SchedulerType=sched/backfill.
Default: 60, Min: 1, Max: 3600 (1 hour).
bf_window=#
The number of minutes into the future to look when considering jobs to
schedule. Higher values result in more overhead and less responsiveness. A
value at least as long as the highest allowed time limit is generally
advisable to prevent job starvation. In order to limit the amount of data
managed by the backfill scheduler, if the value of bf_window is increased,
then it is generally advisable to also increase bf_resolution. This option
applies only to SchedulerType=sched/backfill. Default: 1440 (1 day), Min:
1, Max: 43200 (30 days).
bf_window_linear=#
For performance reasons, the backfill scheduler will decrease precision in
calculation of job expected termination times. By default, the precision
starts at 30 seconds and that time interval doubles with each evaluation of
currently executing jobs when trying to determine when a pending job can
start. This algorithm can support an environment with many thousands of
running jobs, but can result in the expected start time of pending jobs
being gradually being deferred due to lack of precision. A value for
bf_window_linear will cause the time interval to be increased by a constant
amount on each iteration. The value is specified in units of seconds. For
example, a value of 60 will cause the backfill scheduler on the first
iteration to identify the job ending soonest and determine if the pending
job can be started after that job plus all other jobs expected to end within
30 seconds (default initial value) of the first job. On the next iteration,
the pending job will be evaluated for starting after the next job expected
to end plus all jobs ending within 90 seconds of that time (30 second
default, plus the 60 second option value). The third iteration will have a
150 second window and the fourth 210 seconds. Without this option, the time
windows will double on each iteration and thus be 30, 60, 120, 240 seconds,
etc. The use of bf_window_linear is not recommended with more than a few
hundred simultaneously executing jobs.
bf_yield_interval=#
The backfill scheduler will periodically relinquish locks in order for other
pending operations to take place. This specifies the times when the locks
are relinquished in microseconds. Smaller values may be helpful for high
throughput computing when used in conjunction with the bf_continue option.
Also see the bf_yield_sleep option. Default: 2,000,000 (2 sec), Min: 1,
Max: 10,000,000 (10 sec).
bf_yield_sleep=#
The backfill scheduler will periodically relinquish locks in order for other
pending operations to take place. This specifies the length of time for
which the locks are relinquished in microseconds. Also see the
bf_yield_interval option. Default: 500,000 (0.5 sec), Min: 1, Max:
10,000,000 (10 sec).
build_queue_timeout=#
Defines the maximum time that can be devoted to building a queue of jobs to
be tested for scheduling. If the system has a huge number of jobs with
dependencies, just building the job queue can take so much time as to
adversely impact overall system performance and this parameter can be
adjusted as needed. The default value is 2,000,000 microseconds (2
seconds).
default_queue_depth=#
The default number of jobs to attempt scheduling (i.e. the queue depth) when
a running job completes or other routine actions occur, however the
frequency with which the scheduler is run may be limited by using the defer
or sched_min_interval parameters described below. The full queue will be
tested on a less frequent basis as defined by the sched_interval option
described below. The default value is 100. See the partition_job_depth
option to limit depth by partition.
defer Setting this option will avoid attempting to schedule each job individually
at job submit time, but defer it until a later time when scheduling multiple
jobs simultaneously may be possible. This option may improve system
responsiveness when large numbers of jobs (many hundreds) are submitted at
the same time, but it will delay the initiation time of individual jobs.
Also see default_queue_depth above.
delay_boot=#
Do not reboot nodes in order to satisfied this job's feature specification
if the job has been eligible to run for less than this time period. If the
job has waited for less than the specified period, it will use only nodes
which already have the specified features. The argument is in units of
minutes. Individual jobs may override this default value with the
--delay-boot option.
default_gbytes
The default units in job submission memory and temporary disk size
specification will be gigabytes rather than megabytes. Users can override
the default by using a suffix of "M" for megabytes.
disable_job_shrink
Deny user requests to shrink the side of running jobs. (However, running
jobs may still shrink due to node failure if the --no-kill option was set.)
disable_hetero_steps
Disable job steps that span heterogeneous job allocations. The default
value on Cray systems.
enable_hetero_steps
Enable job steps that span heterogeneous job allocations. The default value
except for Cray systems.
enable_user_top
Enable use of the "scontrol top" command by non-privileged users.
Ignore_NUMA
Some processors (e.g. AMD Opteron 6000 series) contain multiple NUMA nodes
per socket. This is a configuration which does not map into the hardware
entities that Slurm optimizes resource allocation for (PU/thread, core,
socket, baseboard, node and network switch). In order to optimize resource
allocations on such hardware, Slurm will consider each NUMA node within the
socket as a separate socket by default. Use the Ignore_NUMA option to report
the correct socket count, but not optimize resource allocations on the NUMA
nodes.
inventory_interval=#
On a Cray system using Slurm on top of ALPS this limits the number of times
a Basil Inventory call is made. Normally this call happens every scheduling
consideration to attempt to close a node state change window with respects
to what ALPS has. This call is rather slow, so making it less frequently
improves performance dramatically, but in the situation where a node changes
state the window is as large as this setting. In an HTC environment this
setting is a must and we advise around 10 seconds.
kill_invalid_depend
If a job has an invalid dependency and it can never run terminate it and set
its state to be JOB_CANCELLED. By default the job stays pending with reason
DependencyNeverSatisfied.
max_array_tasks
Specify the maximum number of tasks that be included in a job array. The
default limit is MaxArraySize, but this option can be used to set a lower
limit. For example, max_array_tasks=1000 and MaxArraySize=100001 would
permit a maximum task ID of 100000, but limit the number of tasks in any
single job array to 1000.
max_depend_depth=#
Maximum number of jobs to test for a circular job dependency. Stop testing
after this number of job dependencies have been tested. The default value is
10 jobs.
max_rpc_cnt=#
If the number of active threads in the slurmctld daemon is equal to or
larger than this value, defer scheduling of jobs. The scheduler will check
this condition at certain points in code and yield locks if necessary. This
can improve Slurm's ability to process requests at a cost of initiating new
jobs less frequently. If a value is set, then a value of 10 or higher is
recommended. NOTE: The maximum number of threads (MAX_SERVER_THREADS) is
internally set to 256 and defines the number of served RPCs at a given time.
Setting max_rpc_cnt to more than 256 will be only useful to let backfill
continue scheduling work after locks have been yielded (i.e. each 2 seconds)
if there are a maximum of MAX(max_rpc_cnt/10, 20) RPCs in the queue. i.e.
max_rpc_cnt=1000, the scheduler will be allowed to continue after yielding
locks only when there are less than or equal to 100 pending RPCs. Default:
0 (option disabled), Min: 0, Max: 1000. The default value is zero, which
disables this option. If a value is set, then a value of 10 or higher is
recommended. It may require some tuning for each system, but needs to be
high enough that scheduling isn't always disabled, and low enough that
requests can get through in a reasonable period of time.
max_sched_time=#
How long, in seconds, that the main scheduling loop will execute for before
exiting. If a value is configured, be aware that all other Slurm operations
will be deferred during this time period. Make certain the value is lower
than MessageTimeout. If a value is not explicitly configured, the default
value is half of MessageTimeout with a minimum default value of 1 second and
a maximum default value of 2 seconds. For example if MessageTimeout=10, the
time limit will be 2 seconds (i.e. MIN(10/2, 2) = 2).
max_script_size=#
Specify the maximum size of a batch script, in bytes. The default value is
4 megabytes. Larger values may adversely impact system performance.
max_switch_wait=#
Maximum number of seconds that a job can delay execution waiting for the
specified desired switch count. The default value is 300 seconds.
no_backup_scheduling
If used, the backup controller will not schedule jobs when it takes over.
The backup controller will allow jobs to be submitted, modified and
cancelled but won't schedule new jobs. This is useful in Cray environments
when the backup controller resides on an external Cray node. A restart is
required to alter this option. This is explicitly set on a Cray/ALPS system.
no_env_cache
If used, any job started on node that fails to load the env from a node will
fail instead of using the cached env. This will also implicitly imply the
requeue_setup_env_fail option as well.
nohold_on_prolog_fail
By default, if the Prolog exits with a non-zero value the job is requeued in
a held state. By specifying this parameter the job will be requeued but not
held so that the scheduler can dispatch it to another host.
pack_serial_at_end
If used with the select/cons_res or select/cons_tres plugin, then put serial
jobs at the end of the available nodes rather than using a best fit
algorithm. This may reduce resource fragmentation for some workloads.
partition_job_depth=#
The default number of jobs to attempt scheduling (i.e. the queue depth) from
each partition/queue in Slurm's main scheduling logic. The functionality is
similar to that provided by the bf_max_job_part option for the backfill
scheduling logic. The default value is 0 (no limit). Job's excluded from
attempted scheduling based upon partition will not be counted against the
default_queue_depth limit. Also see the bf_max_job_part option.
permit_job_expansion
Allow running jobs to request additional nodes be merged in with the current
job allocation.
preempt_reorder_count=#
Specify how many attempts should be made in reording preemptable jobs to
minimize the count of jobs preempted. The default value is 1. High values
may adversely impact performance. The logic to support this option is only
available in the select/cons_res and select/cons_tres plugins.
preempt_strict_order
If set, then execute extra logic in an attempt to preempt only the lowest
priority jobs. It may be desirable to set this configuration parameter when
there are multiple priorities of preemptable jobs. The logic to support
this option is only available in the select/cons_res and select/cons_tres
plugins.
preempt_youngest_first
If set, then the preemption sorting algorithm will be changed to sort by the
job start times to favor preempting younger jobs over older. (Requires
preempt/partition_prio or preempt/qos plugins.)
reduce_completing_frag
This option is used to control how scheduling of resources is performed when
jobs are in completing state, which influences potential fragmentation. If
the option is not set then no jobs will be started in any partition when any
job is in completing state. If the option is set then no jobs will be
started in any individual partition that has a job in completing state. In
addition, no jobs will be started in any partition with nodes that overlap
with any nodes in the partition of the completing job. This option is to be
used in conjunction with CompleteWait. NOTE: CompleteWait must be set for
this to work.
requeue_setup_env_fail
By default if a job environment setup fails the job keeps running with a
limited environment. By specifying this parameter the job will be requeued
in held state and the execution node drained.
salloc_wait_nodes
If defined, the salloc command will wait until all allocated nodes are ready
for use (i.e. booted) before the command returns. By default, salloc will
return as soon as the resource allocation has been made.
sbatch_wait_nodes
If defined, the sbatch script will wait until all allocated nodes are ready
for use (i.e. booted) before the initiation. By default, the sbatch script
will be initiated as soon as the first node in the job allocation is ready.
The sbatch command can use the --wait-all-nodes option to override this
configuration parameter.
sched_interval=#
How frequently, in seconds, the main scheduling loop will execute and test
all pending jobs. The default value is 60 seconds.
sched_max_job_start=#
The maximum number of jobs that the main scheduling logic will start in any
single execution. The default value is zero, which imposes no limit.
sched_min_interval=#
How frequently, in microseconds, the main scheduling loop will execute and
test any pending jobs. The scheduler runs in a limited fashion every time
that any event happens which could enable a job to start (e.g. job submit,
job terminate, etc.). If these events happen at a high frequency, the
scheduler can run very frequently and consume significant resources if not
throttled by this option. This option specifies the minimum time between
the end of one scheduling cycle and the beginning of the next scheduling
cycle. A value of zero will disable throttling of the scheduling logic
interval. The default value is 1,000,000 microseconds on Cray/ALPS systems
and 2 microseconds on other systems.
spec_cores_first
Specialized cores will be selected from the first cores of the first
sockets, cycling through the sockets on a round robin basis. By default,
specialized cores will be selected from the last cores of the last sockets,
cycling through the sockets on a round robin basis.
step_retry_count=#
When a step completes and there are steps ending resource allocation, then
retry step allocations for at least this number of pending steps. Also see
step_retry_time. The default value is 8 steps.
step_retry_time=#
When a step completes and there are steps ending resource allocation, then
retry step allocations for all steps which have been pending for at least
this number of seconds. Also see step_retry_count. The default value is 60
seconds.
whole_hetjob
Requests to cancel, hold or release any component of a heterogeneous job
will be applied to all components of the job.
NOTE: this option was previously named whole_pack and this is still
supported for retrocompatibility.
SchedulerTimeSlice
Number of seconds in each time slice when gang scheduling is enabled
(PreemptMode=SUSPEND,GANG). The value must be between 5 seconds and 65533 seconds.
The default value is 30 seconds.
SchedulerType
Identifies the type of scheduler to be used. Note the slurmctld daemon must be
restarted for a change in scheduler type to become effective (reconfiguring a
running daemon has no effect for this parameter). The scontrol command can be used
to manually change job priorities if desired. Acceptable values include:
sched/backfill
For a backfill scheduling module to augment the default FIFO scheduling.
Backfill scheduling will initiate lower-priority jobs if doing so does not
delay the expected initiation time of any higher priority job.
Effectiveness of backfill scheduling is dependent upon users specifying job
time limits, otherwise all jobs will have the same time limit and
backfilling is impossible. Note documentation for the SchedulerParameters
option above. This is the default configuration.
sched/builtin
This is the FIFO scheduler which initiates jobs in priority order. If any
job in the partition can not be scheduled, no lower priority job in that
partition will be scheduled. An exception is made for jobs that can not run
due to partition constraints (e.g. the time limit) or down/drained nodes.
In that case, lower priority jobs can be initiated and not impact the higher
priority job.
sched/hold
To hold all newly arriving jobs if a file "/etc/slurm.hold" exists otherwise
use the built-in FIFO scheduler
SelectType
Identifies the type of resource selection algorithm to be used. Changing this
value can only be done by restarting the slurmctld daemon and will result in the
loss of all job information (running and pending) since the job state save format
used by each plugin is different. Acceptable values include
select/cons_res
The resources (cores and memory) within a node are individually allocated as
consumable resources. Note that whole nodes can be allocated to jobs for
selected partitions by using the OverSubscribe=Exclusive option. See the
partition OverSubscribe parameter for more information.
select/cray_aries
for a Cray system. The default value is "select/cray_aries" for all Cray
systems.
select/linear
for allocation of entire nodes assuming a one-dimensional array of nodes in
which sequentially ordered nodes are preferable. For a heterogeneous
cluster (e.g. different CPU counts on the various nodes), resource
allocations will favor nodes with high CPU counts as needed based upon the
job's node and CPU specification if TopologyPlugin=topology/none is
configured. Use of other topology plugins with select/linear and
heterogeneous nodes is not recommended and may result in valid job
allocation requests being rejected. This is the default value.
select/cons_tres
The resources (cores, memory, GPUs and all other trackable resources) within
a node are individually allocated as consumable resources. Note that whole
nodes can be allocated to jobs for selected partitions by using the
OverSubscribe=Exclusive option. See the partition OverSubscribe parameter
for more information.
SelectTypeParameters
The permitted values of SelectTypeParameters depend upon the configured value of
SelectType. The only supported options for SelectType=select/linear are
CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE and CR_Memory, which treats memory as a consumable resource
and prevents memory over subscription with job preemption or gang scheduling. By
default SelectType=select/linear allocates whole nodes to jobs without considering
their memory consumption. By default SelectType=select/cons_res,
SelectType=select/cray_aries, and SelectType=select/cons_tres, use CR_CPU, which
allocates CPU (threads) to jobs without considering their memory consumption.
The following options are supported for SelectType=select/cray_aries:
OTHER_CONS_RES
Layer the select/cons_res plugin under the select/cray_aries plugin,
the default is to layer on select/linear. This also allows all the
options available for SelectType=select/cons_res.
OTHER_CONS_TRES
Layer the select/cons_tres plugin under the select/cray_aries plugin,
the default is to layer on select/linear. This also allows all the
options available for SelectType=select/cons_tres.
The following options are supported by the SelectType=select/cons_res and
SelectType=select/cons_tres plugins:
CR_CPU CPUs are consumable resources. Configure the number of CPUs on each
node, which may be equal to the count of cores or hyper-threads on
the node depending upon the desired minimum resource allocation. The
node's Boards, Sockets, CoresPerSocket and ThreadsPerCore may
optionally be configured and result in job allocations which have
improved locality; however doing so will prevent more than one job
being from being allocated on each core.
CR_CPU_Memory
CPUs and memory are consumable resources. Configure the number of
CPUs on each node, which may be equal to the count of cores or
hyper-threads on the node depending upon the desired minimum resource
allocation. The node's Boards, Sockets, CoresPerSocket and
ThreadsPerCore may optionally be configured and result in job
allocations which have improved locality; however doing so will
prevent more than one job being from being allocated on each core.
Setting a value for DefMemPerCPU is strongly recommended.
CR_Core
Cores are consumable resources. On nodes with hyper-threads, each
thread is counted as a CPU to satisfy a job's resource requirement,
but multiple jobs are not allocated threads on the same core. The
count of CPUs allocated to a job may be rounded up to account for
every CPU on an allocated core.
CR_Core_Memory
Cores and memory are consumable resources. On nodes with
hyper-threads, each thread is counted as a CPU to satisfy a job's
resource requirement, but multiple jobs are not allocated threads on
the same core. The count of CPUs allocated to a job may be rounded
up to account for every CPU on an allocated core. Setting a value
for DefMemPerCPU is strongly recommended.
CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE
Allocate one task per core by default. Without this option, by
default one task will be allocated per thread on nodes with more than
one ThreadsPerCore configured. NOTE: This option cannot be used with
CR_CPU*.
CR_CORE_DEFAULT_DIST_BLOCK
Allocate cores within a node using block distribution by default.
This is a pseudo-best-fit algorithm that minimizes the number of
boards and minimizes the number of sockets (within minimum boards)
used for the allocation. This default behavior can be overridden
specifying a particular "-m" parameter with srun/salloc/sbatch.
Without this option, cores will be allocated cyclicly across the
sockets.
CR_LLN Schedule resources to jobs on the least loaded nodes (based upon the
number of idle CPUs). This is generally only recommended for an
environment with serial jobs as idle resources will tend to be highly
fragmented, resulting in parallel jobs being distributed across many
nodes. Note that node Weight takes precedence over how many idle
resources are on each node. Also see the partition configuration
parameter LLN use the least loaded nodes in selected partitions.
CR_Pack_Nodes
If a job allocation contains more resources than will be used for
launching tasks (e.g. if whole nodes are allocated to a job), then
rather than distributing a job's tasks evenly across it's allocated
nodes, pack them as tightly as possible on these nodes. For example,
consider a job allocation containing two entire nodes with eight CPUs
each. If the job starts ten tasks across those two nodes without
this option, it will start five tasks on each of the two nodes. With
this option, eight tasks will be started on the first node and two
tasks on the second node.
CR_Socket
Sockets are consumable resources. On nodes with multiple cores, each
core or thread is counted as a CPU to satisfy a job's resource
requirement, but multiple jobs are not allocated resources on the
same socket.
CR_Socket_Memory
Memory and sockets are consumable resources. On nodes with multiple
cores, each core or thread is counted as a CPU to satisfy a job's
resource requirement, but multiple jobs are not allocated resources
on the same socket. Setting a value for DefMemPerCPU is strongly
recommended.
CR_Memory
Memory is a consumable resource. NOTE: This implies
OverSubscribe=YES or OverSubscribe=FORCE for all partitions. Setting
a value for DefMemPerCPU is strongly recommended.
SlurmUser
The name of the user that the slurmctld daemon executes as. For security purposes,
a user other than "root" is recommended. This user must exist on all nodes of the
cluster for authentication of communications between Slurm components. The default
value is "root".
SlurmdParameters
Parameters specific to the Slurmd. Multiple options may be comma separated.
config_overrides
If set, consider the configuration of each node to be that specified in the
slurm.conf configuration file and any node with less than the configured
resources will not be set DRAIN. This option is generally only useful for
testing purposes. Equivalent to the now deprecated FastSchedule=2 option.
shutdown_on_reboot
If set, the Slurmd will shut itself down when a reboot request is received.
SlurmdUser
The name of the user that the slurmd daemon executes as. This user must exist on
all nodes of the cluster for authentication of communications between Slurm
components. The default value is "root".
SlurmctldAddr
An optional address to be used for communications to the currently active slurmctld
daemon, normally used with Virtual IP addressing of the currently active server.
If this parameter is not specified then each primary and backup server will have
its own unique address used for communications as specified in the SlurmctldHost
parameter. If this parameter is specified then the SlurmctldHost parameter will
still be used for communications to specific slurmctld primary or backup servers,
for example to cause all of them to read the current configuration files or
shutdown. Also see the SlurmctldPrimaryOffProg and SlurmctldPrimaryOnProg
configuration parameters to configure programs to manipulate virtual IP address
manipulation.
SlurmctldDebug
The level of detail to provide slurmctld daemon's logs. The default value is info.
If the slurmctld daemon is initiated with -v or --verbose options, that debug level
will be preserve or restored upon reconfiguration.
quiet Log nothing
fatal Log only fatal errors
error Log only errors
info Log errors and general informational messages
verbose Log errors and verbose informational messages
debug Log errors and verbose informational messages and debugging messages
debug2 Log errors and verbose informational messages and more debugging messages
debug3 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug4 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug5 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
SlurmctldHost
The short, or long, hostname of the machine where Slurm control daemon is executed
(i.e. the name returned by the command "hostname -s"). This hostname is optionally
followed by the address, either the IP address or a name by which the address can
be identifed, enclosed in parentheses (e.g. SlurmctldHost=master1(12.34.56.78)).
This value must be specified at least once. If specified more than once, the first
hostname named will be where the daemon runs. If the first specified host fails,
the daemon will execute on the second host. If both the first and second specified
host fails, the daemon will execute on the third host.
SlurmctldLogFile
Fully qualified pathname of a file into which the slurmctld daemon's logs are
written. The default value is none (performs logging via syslog).
See the section LOGGING if a pathname is specified.
SlurmctldParameters
Multiple options may be comma-separated.
allow_user_triggers
Permit setting triggers from non-root/slurm_user users. SlurmUser must also
be set to root to permit these triggers to work. See the strigger man page
for additional details.
cloud_dns
By default, Slurm expects that the network address for a cloud node won't be
known until the creation of the node and that Slurm will be notified of the
node's address (e.g. scontrol update nodename=<name> nodeaddr=<addr>).
Since Slurm communications rely on the node configuration found in the
slurm.conf, Slurm will tell the client command, after waiting for all nodes
to boot, each node's ip address. However, in environments where the nodes
are in DNS, this step can be avoided by configuring this option.
idle_on_node_suspend Mark nodes as idle, regardless of current state,
when suspending nodes with SuspendProgram so that nodes will be eligible to
be resumed at a later time.
preempt_send_user_signal Send the user signal (e.g. --signal=<sig_num>)
at preemption time even if the signal time hasn't been reached. In the case
of a gracetime preemption the user signal will be sent if the user signal
has been specified and not sent, otherwise a SIGTERM will be sent to the
tasks.
reboot_from_controller Run the RebootProgram from the controller
instead of on the slurmds. The RebootProgram will be passed a comma-
separated list of nodes to reboot.
SlurmctldPidFile
Fully qualified pathname of a file into which the slurmctld daemon may write its
process id. This may be used for automated signal processing. The default value is
"/var/run/slurmctld.pid".
SlurmctldPlugstack
A comma delimited list of Slurm controller plugins to be started when the daemon
begins and terminated when it ends. Only the plugin's init and fini functions are
called.
SlurmctldPort
The port number that the Slurm controller, slurmctld, listens to for work. The
default value is SLURMCTLD_PORT as established at system build time. If none is
explicitly specified, it will be set to 6817. SlurmctldPort may also be configured
to support a range of port numbers in order to accept larger bursts of incoming
messages by specifying two numbers separated by a dash (e.g.
SlurmctldPort=6817-6818). NOTE: Either slurmctld and slurmd daemons must not
execute on the same nodes or the values of SlurmctldPort and SlurmdPort must be
different.
Note: On Cray systems, Realm-Specific IP Addressing (RSIP) will automatically try
to interact with anything opened on ports 8192-60000. Configure SlurmctldPort to
use a port outside of the configured SrunPortRange and RSIP's port range.
SlurmctldPrimaryOffProg
This program is executed when a slurmctld daemon running as the primary server
becomes a backup server. By default no program is executed. See also the related
"SlurmctldPrimaryOnProg" parameter.
SlurmctldPrimaryOnProg
This program is executed when a slurmctld daemon running as a backup server becomes
the primary server. By default no program is executed. When using virtual IP
addresses to manage High Available Slurm services, this program can be used to add
the IP address to an interface (and optionally try to kill the unresponsive
slurmctld daemon and flush the ARP caches on nodes on the local ethernet fabric).
See also the related "SlurmctldPrimaryOffProg" parameter.
SlurmctldSyslogDebug
The slurmctld daemon will log events to the syslog file at the specified level of
detail. If not set, the slurmctld daemon will log to syslog at level fatal, unless
there is no SlurmctldLogFile and it is running in the background, in which case it
will log to syslog at the level specified by SlurmctldDebug (at fatal in the case
that SlurmctldDebug is set to quiet) or it is run in the foreground, when it will
be set to quiet.
quiet Log nothing
fatal Log only fatal errors
error Log only errors
info Log errors and general informational messages
verbose Log errors and verbose informational messages
debug Log errors and verbose informational messages and debugging messages
debug2 Log errors and verbose informational messages and more debugging messages
debug3 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug4 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug5 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
SlurmctldTimeout
The interval, in seconds, that the backup controller waits for the primary
controller to respond before assuming control. The default value is 120 seconds.
May not exceed 65533.
SlurmdDebug
The level of detail to provide slurmd daemon's logs. The default value is info.
quiet Log nothing
fatal Log only fatal errors
error Log only errors
info Log errors and general informational messages
verbose Log errors and verbose informational messages
debug Log errors and verbose informational messages and debugging messages
debug2 Log errors and verbose informational messages and more debugging messages
debug3 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug4 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug5 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
SlurmdLogFile
Fully qualified pathname of a file into which the slurmd daemon's logs are
written. The default value is none (performs logging via syslog). Any "%h" within
the name is replaced with the hostname on which the slurmd is running. Any "%n"
within the name is replaced with the Slurm node name on which the slurmd is
running.
See the section LOGGING if a pathname is specified.
SlurmdPidFile
Fully qualified pathname of a file into which the slurmd daemon may write its
process id. This may be used for automated signal processing. Any "%h" within the
name is replaced with the hostname on which the slurmd is running. Any "%n" within
the name is replaced with the Slurm node name on which the slurmd is running. The
default value is "/var/run/slurmd.pid".
SlurmdPort
The port number that the Slurm compute node daemon, slurmd, listens to for work.
The default value is SLURMD_PORT as established at system build time. If none is
explicitly specified, its value will be 6818. NOTE: Either slurmctld and slurmd
daemons must not execute on the same nodes or the values of SlurmctldPort and
SlurmdPort must be different.
Note: On Cray systems, Realm-Specific IP Addressing (RSIP) will automatically try
to interact with anything opened on ports 8192-60000. Configure SlurmdPort to use
a port outside of the configured SrunPortRange and RSIP's port range.
SlurmdSpoolDir
Fully qualified pathname of a directory into which the slurmd daemon's state
information and batch job script information are written. This must be a common
pathname for all nodes, but should represent a directory which is local to each
node (reference a local file system). The default value is "/var/spool/slurmd".
Any "%h" within the name is replaced with the hostname on which the slurmd is
running. Any "%n" within the name is replaced with the Slurm node name on which
the slurmd is running.
SlurmdSyslogDebug
The slurmd daemon will log events to the syslog file at the specified level of
detail. If not set, the slurmd daemon will log to syslog at level fatal, unless
there is no SlurmdLogFile and it is running in the background, in which case it
will log to syslog at the level specified by SlurmdDebug (at fatal in the case
that SlurmdDebug is set to quiet) or it is run in the foreground, when it will be
set to quiet.
quiet Log nothing
fatal Log only fatal errors
error Log only errors
info Log errors and general informational messages
verbose Log errors and verbose informational messages
debug Log errors and verbose informational messages and debugging messages
debug2 Log errors and verbose informational messages and more debugging messages
debug3 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug4 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
debug5 Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging
messages
SlurmdTimeout
The interval, in seconds, that the Slurm controller waits for slurmd to respond
before configuring that node's state to DOWN. A value of zero indicates the node
will not be tested by slurmctld to confirm the state of slurmd, the node will not
be automatically set to a DOWN state indicating a non-responsive slurmd, and some
other tool will take responsibility for monitoring the state of each compute node
and its slurmd daemon. Slurm's hierarchical communication mechanism is used to
ping the slurmd daemons in order to minimize system noise and overhead. The
default value is 300 seconds. The value may not exceed 65533 seconds.
SlurmSchedLogFile
Fully qualified pathname of the scheduling event logging file. The syntax of this
parameter is the same as for SlurmctldLogFile. In order to configure scheduler
logging, set both the SlurmSchedLogFile and SlurmSchedLogLevel parameters.
SlurmSchedLogLevel
The initial level of scheduling event logging, similar to the SlurmctldDebug
parameter used to control the initial level of slurmctld logging. Valid values for
SlurmSchedLogLevel are "0" (scheduler logging disabled) and "1" (scheduler logging
enabled). If this parameter is omitted, the value defaults to "0" (disabled). In
order to configure scheduler logging, set both the SlurmSchedLogFile and
SlurmSchedLogLevel parameters. The scheduler logging level can be changed
dynamically using scontrol.
SrunEpilog
Fully qualified pathname of an executable to be run by srun following the
completion of a job step. The command line arguments for the executable will be
the command and arguments of the job step. This configuration parameter may be
overridden by srun's --epilog parameter. Note that while the other "Epilog"
executables (e.g., TaskEpilog) are run by slurmd on the compute nodes where the
tasks are executed, the SrunEpilog runs on the node where the "srun" is executing.
SrunPortRange
The srun creates a set of listening ports to communicate with the controller, the
slurmstepd and to handle the application I/O. By default these ports are ephemeral
meaning the port numbers are selected by the kernel. Using this parameter allow
sites to configure a range of ports from which srun ports will be selected. This is
useful if sites want to allow only certain port range on their network.
Note: On Cray systems, Realm-Specific IP Addressing (RSIP) will automatically try
to interact with anything opened on ports 8192-60000. Configure SrunPortRange to
use a range of ports above those used by RSIP, ideally 1000 or more ports, for
example "SrunPortRange=60001-63000".
Note: A sufficient number of ports must be configured based on the estimated number
of srun on the submission nodes considering that srun opens 3 listening ports plus
2 more for every 48 hosts. Example:
srun -N 48 will use 5 listening ports.
srun -N 50 will use 7 listening ports.
srun -N 200 will use 13 listening ports.
SrunProlog
Fully qualified pathname of an executable to be run by srun prior to the launch of
a job step. The command line arguments for the executable will be the command and
arguments of the job step. This configuration parameter may be overridden by
srun's --prolog parameter. Note that while the other "Prolog" executables (e.g.,
TaskProlog) are run by slurmd on the compute nodes where the tasks are executed,
the SrunProlog runs on the node where the "srun" is executing.
StateSaveLocation
Fully qualified pathname of a directory into which the Slurm controller, slurmctld,
saves its state (e.g. "/usr/local/slurm/checkpoint"). Slurm state will saved here
to recover from system failures. SlurmUser must be able to create files in this
directory. If you have a BackupController configured, this location should be
readable and writable by both systems. Since all running and pending job
information is stored here, the use of a reliable file system (e.g. RAID) is
recommended. The default value is "/var/spool". If any slurm daemons terminate
abnormally, their core files will also be written into this directory.
SuspendExcNodes
Specifies the nodes which are to not be placed in power save mode, even if the node
remains idle for an extended period of time. Use Slurm's hostlist expression to
identify nodes with an optional ":" separator and count of nodes to exclude from
the preceding range. For example "nid[10-20]:4" will prevent 4 usable nodes (i.e
IDLE and not DOWN, DRAINING or already powered down) in the set "nid[10-20]" from
being powered down. Multiple sets of nodes can be specified with or without counts
in a comma separated list (e.g "nid[10-20]:4,nid[80-90]:2"). If a node count
specification is given, any list of nodes to NOT have a node count must be after
the last specification with a count. For example "nid[10-20]:4,nid[60-70]" will
exclude 4 nodes in the set "nid[10-20]:4" plus all nodes in the set "nid[60-70]"
while "nid[1-3],nid[10-20]:4" will exclude 4 nodes from the set
"nid[1-3],nid[10-20]". By default no nodes are excluded. Related configuration
options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeProgram, ResumeRate, SuspendProgram,
SuspendRate, SuspendTime, SuspendTimeout, and SuspendExcParts.
SuspendExcParts
Specifies the partitions whose nodes are to not be placed in power save mode, even
if the node remains idle for an extended period of time. Multiple partitions can
be identified and separated by commas. By default no nodes are excluded. Related
configuration options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeProgram, ResumeRate,
SuspendProgram, SuspendRate, SuspendTime SuspendTimeout, and SuspendExcNodes.
SuspendProgram
SuspendProgram is the program that will be executed when a node remains idle for an
extended period of time. This program is expected to place the node into some
power save mode. This can be used to reduce the frequency and voltage of a node or
completely power the node off. The program executes as SlurmUser. The argument to
the program will be the names of nodes to be placed into power savings mode (using
Slurm's hostlist expression format). By default, no program is run. Related
configuration options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeProgram, ResumeRate,
SuspendRate, SuspendTime, SuspendTimeout, SuspendExcNodes, and SuspendExcParts.
SuspendRate
The rate at which nodes are placed into power save mode by SuspendProgram. The
value is number of nodes per minute and it can be used to prevent a large drop in
power consumption (e.g. after a large job completes). A value of zero results in
no limits being imposed. The default value is 60 nodes per minute. Related
configuration options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeProgram, ResumeRate,
SuspendProgram, SuspendTime, SuspendTimeout, SuspendExcNodes, and SuspendExcParts.
SuspendTime
Nodes which remain idle or down for this number of seconds will be placed into
power save mode by SuspendProgram. For efficient system utilization, it is
recommended that the value of SuspendTime be at least as large as the sum of
SuspendTimeout plus ResumeTimeout. A value of -1 disables power save mode and is
the default. Related configuration options include ResumeTimeout, ResumeProgram,
ResumeRate, SuspendProgram, SuspendRate, SuspendTimeout, SuspendExcNodes, and
SuspendExcParts.
SuspendTimeout
Maximum time permitted (in seconds) between when a node suspend request is issued
and when the node is shutdown. At that time the node must be ready for a resume
request to be issued as needed for new work. The default value is 30 seconds.
Related configuration options include ResumeProgram, ResumeRate, ResumeTimeout,
SuspendRate, SuspendTime, SuspendProgram, SuspendExcNodes and SuspendExcParts.
More information is available at the Slurm web site (
https://slurm.schedmd.com/power_save.html ).
SwitchType
Identifies the type of switch or interconnect used for application communications.
Acceptable values include "switch/cray_aries" for Cray systems, "switch/none" for
switches not requiring special processing for job launch or termination (Ethernet,
and InfiniBand) and The default value is "switch/none". All Slurm daemons,
commands and running jobs must be restarted for a change in SwitchType to take
effect. If running jobs exist at the time slurmctld is restarted with a new value
of SwitchType, records of all jobs in any state may be lost.
TaskEpilog
Fully qualified pathname of a program to be execute as the slurm job's owner after
termination of each task. See TaskProlog for execution order details.
TaskPlugin
Identifies the type of task launch plugin, typically used to provide resource
management within a node (e.g. pinning tasks to specific processors). More than one
task plugin can be specified in a comma separated list. The prefix of "task/" is
optional. Acceptable values include:
task/affinity enables resource containment using CPUSETs. This enables the
--cpu-bind and/or --mem-bind srun options. If you use
"task/affinity" and encounter problems, it may be due to the variety
of system calls used to implement task affinity on different
operating systems.
task/cgroup enables resource containment using Linux control cgroups. This
enables the --cpu-bind and/or --mem-bind srun options. NOTE: see
"man cgroup.conf" for configuration details.
task/none for systems requiring no special handling of user tasks. Lacks
support for the --cpu-bind and/or --mem-bind srun options. The
default value is "task/none".
NOTE: It is recommended to stack task/affinity,task/cgroup together when configuring
TaskPlugin, and setting TaskAffinity=no and ConstrainCores=yes in cgroup.conf. This setup
uses the task/affinity plugin for setting the affinity of the tasks (which is better and
different than task/cgroup) and uses the task/cgroup plugin to fence tasks into the
specified resources, thus combining the best of both pieces.
NOTE: For CRAY systems only: task/cgroup must be used with, and listed after
task/cray_aries in TaskPlugin. The task/affinity plugin can be listed everywhere, but the
previous constraint must be satisfied. So for CRAY systems, a configuration like this is
recommended:
TaskPlugin=task/affinity,task/cray_aries,task/cgroup
TaskPluginParam
Optional parameters for the task plugin. Multiple options should be comma
separated. If None, Boards, Sockets, Cores, Threads, and/or Verbose are specified,
they will override the --cpu-bind option specified by the user in the srun command.
None, Boards, Sockets, Cores and Threads are mutually exclusive and since they
decrease scheduling flexibility are not generally recommended (select no more than
one of them). Cpusets and Sched are mutually exclusive (select only one of them).
All TaskPluginParam options are supported on FreeBSD except Cpusets. The Sched
option uses cpuset_setaffinity() on FreeBSD, not sched_setaffinity().
Boards Bind tasks to boards by default. Overrides automatic binding.
Cores Bind tasks to cores by default. Overrides automatic binding.
Cpusets Use cpusets to perform task affinity functions. By default, Sched task
binding is performed.
None Perform no task binding by default. Overrides automatic binding.
Sched Use sched_setaffinity (if available) to bind tasks to processors.
Sockets Bind to sockets by default. Overrides automatic binding.
Threads Bind to threads by default. Overrides automatic binding.
SlurmdOffSpec
If specialized cores or CPUs are identified for the node (i.e. the
CoreSpecCount or CpuSpecList are configured for the node), then Slurm
daemons running on the compute node (i.e. slurmd and slurmstepd) should
run outside of those resources (i.e. specialized resources are completely
unavailable to Slurm daemons and jobs spawned by Slurm). This option may
not be used with the task/cray_aries plugin.
Verbose Verbosely report binding before tasks run. Overrides user options.
Autobind Set a default binding in the event that "auto binding" doesn't find a
match. Set to Threads, Cores or Sockets (E.g.
TaskPluginParam=autobind=threads).
TaskProlog
Fully qualified pathname of a program to be execute as the slurm job's owner prior
to initiation of each task. Besides the normal environment variables, this has
SLURM_TASK_PID available to identify the process ID of the task being started.
Standard output from this program can be used to control the environment variables
and output for the user program.
export NAME=value Will set environment variables for the task being spawned.
Everything after the equal sign to the end of the line will be
used as the value for the environment variable. Exporting of
functions is not currently supported.
print ... Will cause that line (without the leading "print ") to be
printed to the job's standard output.
unset NAME Will clear environment variables for the task being spawned.
The order of task prolog/epilog execution is as follows:
1. pre_launch_priv()
Function in TaskPlugin
1. pre_launch() Function in TaskPlugin
2. TaskProlog System-wide per task program defined in slurm.conf
3. user prolog Job step specific task program defined using srun's
--task-prolog option or SLURM_TASK_PROLOG environment variable
4. Execute the job step's task
5. user epilog Job step specific task program defined using srun's
--task-epilog option or SLURM_TASK_EPILOG environment variable
6. TaskEpilog System-wide per task program defined in slurm.conf
7. post_term() Function in TaskPlugin
TCPTimeout
Time permitted for TCP connection to be established. Default value is 2 seconds.
TmpFS Fully qualified pathname of the file system available to user jobs for temporary
storage. This parameter is used in establishing a node's TmpDisk space. The
default value is "/tmp".
TopologyParam
Comma separated options identifying network topology options.
Dragonfly Optimize allocation for Dragonfly network. Valid when
TopologyPlugin=topology/tree.
TopoOptional Only optimize allocation for network topology if the job includes a
switch option. Since optimizing resource allocation for topology
involves much higher system overhead, this option can be used to
impose the extra overhead only on jobs which can take advantage of
it. If most job allocations are not optimized for network topology,
they make fragment resources to the point that topology optimization
for other jobs will be difficult to achieve. NOTE: Jobs may span
across nodes without common parent switches with this enabled.
TopologyPlugin
Identifies the plugin to be used for determining the network topology and
optimizing job allocations to minimize network contention. See NETWORK TOPOLOGY
below for details. Additional plugins may be provided in the future which gather
topology information directly from the network. Acceptable values include:
topology/3d_torus best-fit logic over three-dimensional topology
topology/node_rank orders nodes based upon information a node_rank field in the
node record as generated by a select plugin. Slurm performs a
best-fit algorithm over those ordered nodes
topology/none default for other systems, best-fit logic over one-dimensional
topology
topology/tree used for a hierarchical network as described in a
topology.conf file
TrackWCKey
Boolean yes or no. Used to set display and track of the Workload Characterization
Key. Must be set to track correct wckey usage. NOTE: You must also set TrackWCKey
in your slurmdbd.conf file to create historical usage reports.
TreeWidth
Slurmd daemons use a virtual tree network for communications. TreeWidth specifies
the width of the tree (i.e. the fanout). On architectures with a front end node
running the slurmd daemon, the value must always be equal to or greater than the
number of front end nodes which eliminates the need for message forwarding between
the slurmd daemons. On other architectures the default value is 50, meaning each
slurmd daemon can communicate with up to 50 other slurmd daemons and over 2500
nodes can be contacted with two message hops. The default value will work well for
most clusters. Optimal system performance can typically be achieved if TreeWidth
is set to the square root of the number of nodes in the cluster for systems having
no more than 2500 nodes or the cube root for larger systems. The value may not
exceed 65533.
UnkillableStepProgram
If the processes in a job step are determined to be unkillable for a period of time
specified by the UnkillableStepTimeout variable, the program specified by
UnkillableStepProgram will be executed. This program can be used to take special
actions to clean up the unkillable processes and/or notify computer administrators.
The program will be run SlurmdUser (usually "root") on the compute node. By
default no program is run.
UnkillableStepTimeout
The length of time, in seconds, that Slurm will wait before deciding that processes
in a job step are unkillable (after they have been signaled with SIGKILL) and
execute UnkillableStepProgram as described above. The default timeout value is 60
seconds. If exceeded, the compute node will be drained to prevent future jobs from
being scheduled on the node.
UsePAM If set to 1, PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) will be enabled. PAM
is used to establish the upper bounds for resource limits. With PAM support
enabled, local system administrators can dynamically configure system resource
limits. Changing the upper bound of a resource limit will not alter the limits of
running jobs, only jobs started after a change has been made will pick up the new
limits. The default value is 0 (not to enable PAM support). Remember that PAM
also needs to be configured to support Slurm as a service. For sites using PAM's
directory based configuration option, a configuration file named slurm should be
created. The module-type, control-flags, and module-path names that should be
included in the file are:
auth required pam_localuser.so
auth required pam_shells.so
account required pam_unix.so
account required pam_access.so
session required pam_unix.so
For sites configuring PAM with a general configuration file, the appropriate lines
(see above), where slurm is the service-name, should be added.
NOTE: UsePAM option has nothing to do with the contribs/pam/pam_slurm and/or
contribs/pam_slurm_adopt modules. So these two modules can work independently of
the value set for UsePAM.
VSizeFactor
Memory specifications in job requests apply to real memory size (also known as
resident set size). It is possible to enforce virtual memory limits for both jobs
and job steps by limiting their virtual memory to some percentage of their real
memory allocation. The VSizeFactor parameter specifies the job's or job step's
virtual memory limit as a percentage of its real memory limit. For example, if a
job's real memory limit is 500MB and VSizeFactor is set to 101 then the job will be
killed if its real memory exceeds 500MB or its virtual memory exceeds 505MB (101
percent of the real memory limit). The default value is 0, which disables
enforcement of virtual memory limits. The value may not exceed 65533 percent.
WaitTime
Specifies how many seconds the srun command should by default wait after the first
task terminates before terminating all remaining tasks. The "--wait" option on the
srun command line overrides this value. The default value is 0, which disables
this feature. May not exceed 65533 seconds.
X11Parameters
For use with Slurm's built-in X11 forwarding implementation.
home_xauthority
If set, xauth data on the compute node will be placed in ~/.Xauthority
rather than in a temporary file under TmpFS.
The configuration of nodes (or machines) to be managed by Slurm is also specified in
/etc/slurm.conf. Changes in node configuration (e.g. adding nodes, changing their
processor count, etc.) require restarting both the slurmctld daemon and the slurmd
daemons. All slurmd daemons must know each node in the system to forward messages in
support of hierarchical communications. Only the NodeName must be supplied in the
configuration file. All other node configuration information is optional. It is
advisable to establish baseline node configurations, especially if the cluster is
heterogeneous. Nodes which register to the system with less than the configured resources
(e.g. too little memory), will be placed in the "DOWN" state to avoid scheduling jobs on
them. Establishing baseline configurations will also speed Slurm's scheduling process by
permitting it to compare job requirements against these (relatively few) configuration
parameters and possibly avoid having to check job requirements against every individual
node's configuration. The resources checked at node registration time are: CPUs,
RealMemory and TmpDisk.
Default values can be specified with a record in which NodeName is "DEFAULT". The default
entry values will apply only to lines following it in the configuration file and the
default values can be reset multiple times in the configuration file with multiple entries
where "NodeName=DEFAULT". Each line where NodeName is "DEFAULT" will replace or add to
previous default values and not a reinitialize the default values. The "NodeName="
specification must be placed on every line describing the configuration of nodes. A
single node name can not appear as a NodeName value in more than one line (duplicate node
name records will be ignored). In fact, it is generally possible and desirable to define
the configurations of all nodes in only a few lines. This convention permits significant
optimization in the scheduling of larger clusters. In order to support the concept of
jobs requiring consecutive nodes on some architectures, node specifications should be
place in this file in consecutive order. No single node name may be listed more than once
in the configuration file. Use "DownNodes=" to record the state of nodes which are
temporarily in a DOWN, DRAIN or FAILING state without altering permanent configuration
information. A job step's tasks are allocated to nodes in order the nodes appear in the
configuration file. There is presently no capability within Slurm to arbitrarily order a
job step's tasks.
Multiple node names may be comma separated (e.g. "alpha,beta,gamma") and/or a simple node
range expression may optionally be used to specify numeric ranges of nodes to avoid
building a configuration file with large numbers of entries. The node range expression
can contain one pair of square brackets with a sequence of comma separated numbers and/or
ranges of numbers separated by a "-" (e.g. "linux[0-64,128]", or "lx[15,18,32-33]"). Note
that the numeric ranges can include one or more leading zeros to indicate the numeric
portion has a fixed number of digits (e.g. "linux[0000-1023]"). Multiple numeric ranges
can be included in the expression (e.g. "rack[0-63]_blade[0-41]"). If one or more numeric
expressions are included, one of them must be at the end of the name (e.g.
"unit[0-31]rack" is invalid), but arbitrary names can always be used in a comma separated
list.
The node configuration specified the following information:
NodeName
Name that Slurm uses to refer to a node. Typically this would be the string that
"/bin/hostname -s" returns. It may also be the fully qualified domain name as
returned by "/bin/hostname -f" (e.g. "foo1.bar.com"), or any valid domain name
associated with the host through the host database (/etc/hosts) or DNS, depending
on the resolver settings. Note that if the short form of the hostname is not used,
it may prevent use of hostlist expressions (the numeric portion in brackets must be
at the end of the string). It may also be an arbitrary string if NodeHostname is
specified. If the NodeName is "DEFAULT", the values specified with that record
will apply to subsequent node specifications unless explicitly set to other values
in that node record or replaced with a different set of default values. Each line
where NodeName is "DEFAULT" will replace or add to previous default values and not
a reinitialize the default values. For architectures in which the node order is
significant, nodes will be considered consecutive in the order defined. For
example, if the configuration for "NodeName=charlie" immediately follows the
configuration for "NodeName=baker" they will be considered adjacent in the
computer.
NodeHostname
Typically this would be the string that "/bin/hostname -s" returns. It may also be
the fully qualified domain name as returned by "/bin/hostname -f" (e.g.
"foo1.bar.com"), or any valid domain name associated with the host through the host
database (/etc/hosts) or DNS, depending on the resolver settings. Note that if the
short form of the hostname is not used, it may prevent use of hostlist expressions
(the numeric portion in brackets must be at the end of the string). A node range
expression can be used to specify a set of nodes. If an expression is used, the
number of nodes identified by NodeHostname on a line in the configuration file must
be identical to the number of nodes identified by NodeName. By default, the
NodeHostname will be identical in value to NodeName.
NodeAddr
Name that a node should be referred to in establishing a communications path. This
name will be used as an argument to the gethostbyname() function for
identification. If a node range expression is used to designate multiple nodes,
they must exactly match the entries in the NodeName (e.g. "NodeName=lx[0-7]
NodeAddr=elx[0-7]"). NodeAddr may also contain IP addresses. By default, the
NodeAddr will be identical in value to NodeHostname.
Boards Number of Baseboards in nodes with a baseboard controller. Note that when Boards
is specified, SocketsPerBoard, CoresPerSocket, and ThreadsPerCore should be
specified. Boards and CPUs are mutually exclusive. The default value is 1.
CoreSpecCount
Number of cores reserved for system use. These cores will not be available for
allocation to user jobs. Depending upon the TaskPluginParam option of
SlurmdOffSpec, Slurm daemons (i.e. slurmd and slurmstepd) may either be confined to
these resources (the default) or prevented from using these resources. Isolation
of the Slurm daemons from user jobs may improve application performance. If this
option and CpuSpecList are both designated for a node, an error is generated. For
information on the algorithm used by Slurm to select the cores refer to the core
specialization documentation ( https://slurm.schedmd.com/core_spec.html ).
CoresPerSocket
Number of cores in a single physical processor socket (e.g. "2"). The
CoresPerSocket value describes physical cores, not the logical number of processors
per socket. NOTE: If you have multi-core processors, you will likely need to
specify this parameter in order to optimize scheduling. The default value is 1.
CpuBind
If a job step request does not specify an option to control how tasks are bound to
allocated CPUs (--cpu-bind) and all nodes allocated to the job have the same
CpuBind option the node CpuBind option will control how tasks are bound to
allocated resources. Supported values for CpuBind are "none", "board", "socket",
"ldom" (NUMA), "core" and "thread".
CPUs Number of logical processors on the node (e.g. "2"). CPUs and Boards are mutually
exclusive. It can be set to the total number of sockets, cores or threads. This can
be useful when you want to schedule only the cores on a hyper-threaded node. If
CPUs is omitted, it will be set equal to the product of Sockets, CoresPerSocket,
and ThreadsPerCore. The default value is 1.
CpuSpecList
A comma delimited list of Slurm abstract CPU IDs reserved for system use. The list
will be expanded to include all other CPUs, if any, on the same cores. These cores
will not be available for allocation to user jobs. Depending upon the
TaskPluginParam option of SlurmdOffSpec, Slurm daemons (i.e. slurmd and slurmstepd)
may either be confined to these resources (the default) or prevented from using
these resources. Isolation of the Slurm daemons from user jobs may improve
application performance. If this option and CoreSpecCount are both designated for
a node, an error is generated. This option has no effect unless cgroup job
confinement is also configured (TaskPlugin=task/cgroup with ConstrainCores=yes in
cgroup.conf).
Feature
A comma delimited list of arbitrary strings indicative of some characteristic
associated with the node. There is no value associated with a feature at this
time, a node either has a feature or it does not. If desired a feature may contain
a numeric component indicating, for example, processor speed. By default a node
has no features. Also see Gres.
Gres A comma delimited list of generic resources specifications for a node. The format
is: "<name>[:<type>][:no_consume]:<number>[K|M|G]". The first field is the
resource name, which matches the GresType configuration parameter name. The
optional type field might be used to identify a model of that generic resource. It
is forbidden to specify both an untyped GRES and a typed GRES with the same <name>.
A generic resource can also be specified as non-consumable (i.e. multiple jobs can
use the same generic resource) with the optional field ":no_consume". The final
field must specify a generic resources count. A suffix of "K", "M", "G", "T" or
"P" may be used to multiply the number by 1024, 1048576, 1073741824, etc.
respectively.
(e.g."Gres=gpu:tesla:1,gpu:kepler:1,bandwidth:lustre:no_consume:4G"). By default a
node has no generic resources and its maximum count is that of an unsigned 64bit
integer. Also see Feature.
MemSpecLimit
Amount of memory, in megabytes, reserved for system use and not available for user
allocations. If the task/cgroup plugin is configured and that plugin constrains
memory allocations (i.e. TaskPlugin=task/cgroup in slurm.conf, plus
ConstrainRAMSpace=yes in cgroup.conf), then Slurm compute node daemons (slurmd plus
slurmstepd) will be allocated the specified memory limit. Note that having the
Memory set in SelectTypeParameters as any of the options that has it as a
consumable resource is needed for this option to work. The daemons will not be
killed if they exhaust the memory allocation (ie. the Out-Of-Memory Killer is
disabled for the daemon's memory cgroup). If the task/cgroup plugin is not
configured, the specified memory will only be unavailable for user allocations.
Port The port number that the Slurm compute node daemon, slurmd, listens to for work on
this particular node. By default there is a single port number for all slurmd
daemons on all compute nodes as defined by the SlurmdPort configuration parameter.
Use of this option is not generally recommended except for development or testing
purposes. If multiple slurmd daemons execute on a node this can specify a range of
ports.
Note: On Cray systems, Realm-Specific IP Addressing (RSIP) will automatically try
to interact with anything opened on ports 8192-60000. Configure Port to use a port
outside of the configured SrunPortRange and RSIP's port range.
Procs See CPUs.
RealMemory
Size of real memory on the node in megabytes (e.g. "2048"). The default value is
1. Lowering RealMemory with the goal of setting aside some amount for the OS and
not available for job allocations will not work as intended if Memory is not set as
a consumable resource in SelectTypeParameters. So one of the *_Memory options need
to be enabled for that goal to be accomplished. Also see MemSpecLimit.
Reason Identifies the reason for a node being in state "DOWN", "DRAINED" "DRAINING",
"FAIL" or "FAILING". Use quotes to enclose a reason having more than one word.
Sockets
Number of physical processor sockets/chips on the node (e.g. "2"). If Sockets is
omitted, it will be inferred from CPUs, CoresPerSocket, and ThreadsPerCore. NOTE:
If you have multi-core processors, you will likely need to specify these
parameters. Sockets and SocketsPerBoard are mutually exclusive. If Sockets is
specified when Boards is also used, Sockets is interpreted as SocketsPerBoard
rather than total sockets. The default value is 1.
SocketsPerBoard
Number of physical processor sockets/chips on a baseboard. Sockets and
SocketsPerBoard are mutually exclusive. The default value is 1.
State State of the node with respect to the initiation of user jobs. Acceptable values
are "CLOUD", "DOWN", "DRAIN", "FAIL", "FAILING", "FUTURE" and "UNKNOWN". Node
states of "BUSY" and "IDLE" should not be specified in the node configuration, but
set the node state to "UNKNOWN" instead. Setting the node state to "UNKNOWN" will
result in the node state being set to "BUSY", "IDLE" or other appropriate state
based upon recovered system state information. The default value is "UNKNOWN".
Also see the DownNodes parameter below.
CLOUD Indicates the node exists in the cloud. It's initial state will be
treated as powered down. The node will be available for use after it's
state is recovered from Slurm's state save file or the slurmd daemon
starts on the compute node.
DOWN Indicates the node failed and is unavailable to be allocated work.
DRAIN Indicates the node is unavailable to be allocated work.on.
FAIL Indicates the node is expected to fail soon, has no jobs allocated to it,
and will not be allocated to any new jobs.
FAILING Indicates the node is expected to fail soon, has one or more jobs
allocated to it, but will not be allocated to any new jobs.
FUTURE Indicates the node is defined for future use and need not exist when the
Slurm daemons are started. These nodes can be made available for use
simply by updating the node state using the scontrol command rather than
restarting the slurmctld daemon. After these nodes are made available,
change their State in the slurm.conf file. Until these nodes are made
available, they will not be seen using any Slurm commands or nor will any
attempt be made to contact them.
UNKNOWN Indicates the node's state is undefined (BUSY or IDLE), but will be
established when the slurmd daemon on that node registers. The default
value is "UNKNOWN".
ThreadsPerCore
Number of logical threads in a single physical core (e.g. "2"). Note that the
Slurm can allocate resources to jobs down to the resolution of a core. If your
system is configured with more than one thread per core, execution of a different
job on each thread is not supported unless you configure
SelectTypeParameters=CR_CPU plus CPUs; do not configure Sockets, CoresPerSocket or
ThreadsPerCore. A job can execute a one task per thread from within one job step
or execute a distinct job step on each of the threads. Note also if you are
running with more than 1 thread per core and running the select/cons_res or
select/cons_tres plugin then you will want to set the SelectTypeParameters variable
to something other than CR_CPU to avoid unexpected results. The default value is
1.
TmpDisk
Total size of temporary disk storage in TmpFS in megabytes (e.g. "16384"). TmpFS
(for "Temporary File System") identifies the location which jobs should use for
temporary storage. Note this does not indicate the amount of free space available
to the user on the node, only the total file system size. The system administration
should ensure this file system is purged as needed so that user jobs have access to
most of this space. The Prolog and/or Epilog programs (specified in the
configuration file) might be used to ensure the file system is kept clean. The
default value is 0.
TRESWeights TRESWeights are used to calculate a value that represents how
busy a node is. Currently only used in federation configurations. TRESWeights are
different from TRESBillingWeights -- which is used for fairshare calculations.
TRES weights are specified as a comma-separated list of <TRES Type>=<TRES Weight>
pairs.
e.g.
NodeName=node1 ... TRESWeights="CPU=1.0,Mem=0.25G,GRES/gpu=2.0"
By default the weighted TRES value is calculated as the sum of all node TRES types
multiplied by their corresponding TRES weight.
If PriorityFlags=MAX_TRES is configured, the weighted TRES value is calculated as
the MAX of individual node TRES' (e.g. cpus, mem, gres).
Weight The priority of the node for scheduling purposes. All things being equal, jobs
will be allocated the nodes with the lowest weight which satisfies their
requirements. For example, a heterogeneous collection of nodes might be placed
into a single partition for greater system utilization, responsiveness and
capability. It would be preferable to allocate smaller memory nodes rather than
larger memory nodes if either will satisfy a job's requirements. The units of
weight are arbitrary, but larger weights should be assigned to nodes with more
processors, memory, disk space, higher processor speed, etc. Note that if a job
allocation request can not be satisfied using the nodes with the lowest weight, the
set of nodes with the next lowest weight is added to the set of nodes under
consideration for use (repeat as needed for higher weight values). If you
absolutely want to minimize the number of higher weight nodes allocated to a job
(at a cost of higher scheduling overhead), give each node a distinct Weight value
and they will be added to the pool of nodes being considered for scheduling
individually. The default value is 1.
The "DownNodes=" configuration permits you to mark certain nodes as in a DOWN, DRAIN,
FAIL, or FAILING state without altering the permanent configuration information listed
under a "NodeName=" specification.
DownNodes
Any node name, or list of node names, from the "NodeName=" specifications.
Reason Identifies the reason for a node being in state "DOWN", "DRAIN", "FAIL" or
"FAILING. Use quotes to enclose a reason having more than one word.
State State of the node with respect to the initiation of user jobs. Acceptable values
are "DOWN", "DRAIN", "FAIL", "FAILING" and "UNKNOWN". Node states of "BUSY" and
"IDLE" should not be specified in the node configuration, but set the node state to
"UNKNOWN" instead. Setting the node state to "UNKNOWN" will result in the node
state being set to "BUSY", "IDLE" or other appropriate state based upon recovered
system state information. The default value is "UNKNOWN".
DOWN Indicates the node failed and is unavailable to be allocated work.
DRAIN Indicates the node is unavailable to be allocated work.on.
FAIL Indicates the node is expected to fail soon, has no jobs allocated to it,
and will not be allocated to any new jobs.
FAILING Indicates the node is expected to fail soon, has one or more jobs
allocated to it, but will not be allocated to any new jobs.
UNKNOWN Indicates the node's state is undefined (BUSY or IDLE), but will be
established when the slurmd daemon on that node registers. The default
value is "UNKNOWN".
On computers where frontend nodes are used to execute batch scripts rather than compute
nodes (Cray ALPS systems), one may configure one or more frontend nodes using the
configuration parameters defined below. These options are very similar to those used in
configuring compute nodes. These options may only be used on systems configured and built
with the appropriate parameters (--have-front-end) or a system determined to have the
appropriate architecture by the configure script (Cray ALPS systems). The front end
configuration specifies the following information:
AllowGroups
Comma separated list of group names which may execute jobs on this front end node.
By default, all groups may use this front end node. If at least one group
associated with the user attempting to execute the job is in AllowGroups, he will
be permitted to use this front end node. May not be used with the DenyGroups
option.
AllowUsers
Comma separated list of user names which may execute jobs on this front end node.
By default, all users may use this front end node. May not be used with the
DenyUsers option.
DenyGroups
Comma separated list of group names which are prevented from executing jobs on this
front end node. May not be used with the AllowGroups option.
DenyUsers
Comma separated list of user names which are prevented from executing jobs on this
front end node. May not be used with the AllowUsers option.
FrontendName
Name that Slurm uses to refer to a frontend node. Typically this would be the
string that "/bin/hostname -s" returns. It may also be the fully qualified domain
name as returned by "/bin/hostname -f" (e.g. "foo1.bar.com"), or any valid domain
name associated with the host through the host database (/etc/hosts) or DNS,
depending on the resolver settings. Note that if the short form of the hostname is
not used, it may prevent use of hostlist expressions (the numeric portion in
brackets must be at the end of the string). If the FrontendName is "DEFAULT", the
values specified with that record will apply to subsequent node specifications
unless explicitly set to other values in that frontend node record or replaced with
a different set of default values. Each line where FrontendName is "DEFAULT" will
replace or add to previous default values and not a reinitialize the default
values. Note that since the naming of front end nodes would typically not follow
that of the compute nodes (e.g. lacking X, Y and Z coordinates found in the compute
node naming scheme), each front end node name should be listed separately and
without a hostlist expression (i.e. frontend00,frontend01" rather than
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FrontendAddr
Name that a frontend node should be referred to in establishing a communications
path. This name will be used as an argument to the gethostbyname() function for
identification. As with FrontendName, list the individual node addresses rather
than using a hostlist expression. The number of FrontendAddr records per line must
equal the number of FrontendName records per line (i.e. you can't map to node names
to one address). FrontendAddr may also contain IP addresses. By default, the
FrontendAddr will be identical in value to FrontendName.
Port The port number that the Slurm compute node daemon, slurmd, listens to for work on
this particular frontend node. By default there is a single port number for all
slurmd daemons on all frontend nodes as defined by the SlurmdPort configuration
parameter. Use of this option is not generally recommended except for development
or testing purposes.
Note: On Cray systems, Realm-Specific IP Addressing (RSIP) will automatically try
to interact with anything opened on ports 8192-60000. Configure Port to use a port
outside of the configured SrunPortRange and RSIP's port range.
Reason Identifies the reason for a frontend node being in state "DOWN", "DRAINED"
"DRAINING", "FAIL" or "FAILING". Use quotes to enclose a reason having more than
one word.
State State of the frontend node with respect to the initiation of user jobs. Acceptable
values are "DOWN", "DRAIN", "FAIL", "FAILING" and "UNKNOWN". "DOWN" indicates the
frontend node has failed and is unavailable to be allocated work. "DRAIN"
indicates the frontend node is unavailable to be allocated work. "FAIL" indicates
the frontend node is expected to fail soon, has no jobs allocated to it, and will
not be allocated to any new jobs. "FAILING" indicates the frontend node is
expected to fail soon, has one or more jobs allocated to it, but will not be
allocated to any new jobs. "UNKNOWN" indicates the frontend node's state is
undefined (BUSY or IDLE), but will be established when the slurmd daemon on that
node registers. The default value is "UNKNOWN". Also see the DownNodes parameter
below.
For example: "FrontendName=frontend[00-03] FrontendAddr=efrontend[00-03]
State=UNKNOWN" is used to define four front end nodes for running slurmd daemons.
The partition configuration permits you to establish different job limits or access
controls for various groups (or partitions) of nodes. Nodes may be in more than one
partition, making partitions serve as general purpose queues. For example one may put the
same set of nodes into two different partitions, each with different constraints (time
limit, job sizes, groups allowed to use the partition, etc.). Jobs are allocated
resources within a single partition. Default values can be specified with a record in
which PartitionName is "DEFAULT". The default entry values will apply only to lines
following it in the configuration file and the default values can be reset multiple times
in the configuration file with multiple entries where "PartitionName=DEFAULT". The
"PartitionName=" specification must be placed on every line describing the configuration
of partitions. Each line where PartitionName is "DEFAULT" will replace or add to previous
default values and not a reinitialize the default values. A single partition name can not
appear as a PartitionName value in more than one line (duplicate partition name records
will be ignored). If a partition that is in use is deleted from the configuration and
slurm is restarted or reconfigured (scontrol reconfigure), jobs using the partition are
canceled. NOTE: Put all parameters for each partition on a single line. Each line of
partition configuration information should represent a different partition. The partition
configuration file contains the following information:
AllocNodes
Comma separated list of nodes from which users can submit jobs in the partition.
Node names may be specified using the node range expression syntax described above.
The default value is "ALL".
AllowAccounts
Comma separated list of accounts which may execute jobs in the partition. The
default value is "ALL". NOTE: If AllowAccounts is used then DenyAccounts will not
be enforced. Also refer to DenyAccounts.
AllowGroups
Comma separated list of group names which may execute jobs in the partition. If at
least one group associated with the user attempting to execute the job is in
AllowGroups, he will be permitted to use this partition. Jobs executed as user
root can use any partition without regard to the value of AllowGroups. If user
root attempts to execute a job as another user (e.g. using srun's --uid option),
this other user must be in one of groups identified by AllowGroups for the job to
successfully execute. The default value is "ALL". When set, all partitions that a
user does not have access will be hidden from display regardless of the settings
used for PrivateData. NOTE: For performance reasons, Slurm maintains a list of
user IDs allowed to use each partition and this is checked at job submission time.
This list of user IDs is updated when the slurmctld daemon is restarted,
reconfigured (e.g. "scontrol reconfig") or the partition's AllowGroups value is
reset, even if is value is unchanged (e.g. "scontrol update PartitionName=name
AllowGroups=group"). For a user's access to a partition to change, both his group
membership must change and Slurm's internal user ID list must change using one of
the methods described above.
AllowQos
Comma separated list of Qos which may execute jobs in the partition. Jobs executed
as user root can use any partition without regard to the value of AllowQos. The
default value is "ALL". NOTE: If AllowQos is used then DenyQos will not be
enforced. Also refer to DenyQos.
Alternate
Partition name of alternate partition to be used if the state of this partition is
"DRAIN" or "INACTIVE."
CpuBind
If a job step request does not specify an option to control how tasks are bound to
allocated CPUs (--cpu-bind) and all nodes allocated to the job do not have the same
CpuBind option the node. Then the partition's CpuBind option will control how tasks
are bound to allocated resources. Supported values forCpuBind are "none", "board",
"socket", "ldom" (NUMA), "core" and "thread".
Default
If this keyword is set, jobs submitted without a partition specification will
utilize this partition. Possible values are "YES" and "NO". The default value is
"NO".
DefCpuPerGPU
Default count of CPUs allocated per allocated GPU.
DefMemPerCPU
Default real memory size available per allocated CPU in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. DefMemPerCPU would generally be used
if individual processors are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/cons_res or
SelectType=select/cons_tres). If not set, the DefMemPerCPU value for the entire
cluster will be used. Also see DefMemPerGPU, DefMemPerNode and MaxMemPerCPU.
DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerGPU and DefMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
DefMemPerGPU
Default real memory size available per allocated GPU in megabytes. Also see
DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerNode and MaxMemPerCPU. DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerGPU and
DefMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
DefMemPerNode
Default real memory size available per allocated node in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. DefMemPerNode would generally be used
if whole nodes are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/linear) and resources are
over-subscribed (OverSubscribe=yes or OverSubscribe=force). If not set, the
DefMemPerNode value for the entire cluster will be used. Also see DefMemPerCPU,
DefMemPerGPU and MaxMemPerCPU. DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerGPU and DefMemPerNode are
mutually exclusive.
DenyAccounts
Comma separated list of accounts which may not execute jobs in the partition. By
default, no accounts are denied access NOTE: If AllowAccounts is used then
DenyAccounts will not be enforced. Also refer to AllowAccounts.
DenyQos
Comma separated list of Qos which may not execute jobs in the partition. By
default, no QOS are denied access NOTE: If AllowQos is used then DenyQos will not
be enforced. Also refer AllowQos.
DefaultTime
Run time limit used for jobs that don't specify a value. If not set then MaxTime
will be used. Format is the same as for MaxTime.
DisableRootJobs
If set to "YES" then user root will be prevented from running any jobs on this
partition. The default value will be the value of DisableRootJobs set outside of a
partition specification (which is "NO", allowing user root to execute jobs).
ExclusiveUser
If set to "YES" then nodes will be exclusively allocated to users. Multiple jobs
may be run for the same user, but only one user can be active at a time. This
capability is also available on a per-job basis by using the --exclusive=user
option.
GraceTime
Specifies, in units of seconds, the preemption grace time to be extended to a job
which has been selected for preemption. The default value is zero, no preemption
grace time is allowed on this partition. Once a job has been selected for
preemption, its end time is set to the current time plus GraceTime. The job's tasks
are immediately sent SIGCONT and SIGTERM signals in order to provide notification
of its imminent termination. This is followed by the SIGCONT, SIGTERM and SIGKILL
signal sequence upon reaching its new end time. This second set of signals is sent
to both the tasks and the containing batch script, if applicable. Meaningful only
for PreemptMode=CANCEL. See also the global KillWait configuration parameter.
Hidden Specifies if the partition and its jobs are to be hidden by default. Hidden
partitions will by default not be reported by the Slurm APIs or commands. Possible
values are "YES" and "NO". The default value is "NO". Note that partitions that a
user lacks access to by virtue of the AllowGroups parameter will also be hidden by
default.
LLN Schedule resources to jobs on the least loaded nodes (based upon the number of idle
CPUs). This is generally only recommended for an environment with serial jobs as
idle resources will tend to be highly fragmented, resulting in parallel jobs being
distributed across many nodes. Note that node Weight takes precedence over how
many idle resources are on each node. Also see the SelectParameters configuration
parameter CR_LLN to use the least loaded nodes in every partition.
MaxCPUsPerNode
Maximum number of CPUs on any node available to all jobs from this partition. This
can be especially useful to schedule GPUs. For example a node can be associated
with two Slurm partitions (e.g. "cpu" and "gpu") and the partition/queue "cpu"
could be limited to only a subset of the node's CPUs, ensuring that one or more
CPUs would be available to jobs in the "gpu" partition/queue.
MaxMemPerCPU
Maximum real memory size available per allocated CPU in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. MaxMemPerCPU would generally be used
if individual processors are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/cons_res or
SelectType=select/cons_tres). If not set, the MaxMemPerCPU value for the entire
cluster will be used. Also see DefMemPerCPU and MaxMemPerNode. MaxMemPerCPU and
MaxMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
MaxMemPerNode
Maximum real memory size available per allocated node in megabytes. Used to avoid
over-subscribing memory and causing paging. MaxMemPerNode would generally be used
if whole nodes are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/linear) and resources are
over-subscribed (OverSubscribe=yes or OverSubscribe=force). If not set, the
MaxMemPerNode value for the entire cluster will be used. Also see DefMemPerNode
and MaxMemPerCPU. MaxMemPerCPU and MaxMemPerNode are mutually exclusive.
MaxNodes
Maximum count of nodes which may be allocated to any single job. The default value
is "UNLIMITED", which is represented internally as -1. This limit does not apply
to jobs executed by SlurmUser or user root.
MaxTime
Maximum run time limit for jobs. Format is minutes, minutes:seconds,
hours:minutes:seconds, days-hours, days-hours:minutes, days-hours:minutes:seconds
or "UNLIMITED". Time resolution is one minute and second values are rounded up to
the next minute. This limit does not apply to jobs executed by SlurmUser or user
root.
MinNodes
Minimum count of nodes which may be allocated to any single job. The default value
is 0. This limit does not apply to jobs executed by SlurmUser or user root.
Nodes Comma separated list of nodes which are associated with this partition. Node names
may be specified using the node range expression syntax described above. A blank
list of nodes (i.e. "Nodes= ") can be used if one wants a partition to exist, but
have no resources (possibly on a temporary basis). A value of "ALL" is mapped to
all nodes configured in the cluster.
OverSubscribe
Controls the ability of the partition to execute more than one job at a time on
each resource (node, socket or core depending upon the value of
SelectTypeParameters). If resources are to be over-subscribed, avoiding memory
over-subscription is very important. SelectTypeParameters should be configured to
treat memory as a consumable resource and the --mem option should be used for job
allocations. Sharing of resources is typically useful only when using gang
scheduling (PreemptMode=suspend,gang). Possible values for OverSubscribe are
"EXCLUSIVE", "FORCE", "YES", and "NO". Note that a value of "YES" or "FORCE" can
negatively impact performance for systems with many thousands of running jobs. The
default value is "NO". For more information see the following web pages:
https://slurm.schedmd.com/cons_res.html,
https://slurm.schedmd.com/cons_res_share.html,
https://slurm.schedmd.com/gang_scheduling.html, and
https://slurm.schedmd.com/preempt.html.
EXCLUSIVE Allocates entire nodes to jobs even with SelectType=select/cons_res or
SelectType=select/cons_tres configured. Jobs that run in partitions
with "OverSubscribe=EXCLUSIVE" will have exclusive access to all
allocated nodes.
FORCE Makes all resources in the partition available for oversubscription
without any means for users to disable it. May be followed with a
colon and maximum number of jobs in running or suspended state. For
example "OverSubscribe=FORCE:4" enables each node, socket or core to
oversubscribe each resource four ways. Recommended only for systems
running with gang scheduling (PreemptMode=suspend,gang). NOTE:
PreemptType=QOS will permit one additional job to be run on the
partition if started due to job preemption. For example, a
configuration of OverSubscribe=FORCE:1 will only permit one job per
resources normally, but a second job can be started if done so through
preemption based upon QOS. The use of PreemptType=QOS and
PreemptType=Suspend only applies with SelectType=select/cons_res or
SelectType=select/cons_tres.
YES Makes all resources in the partition available for sharing upon request
by the job. Resources will only be over-subscribed when explicitly
requested by the user using the "--oversubscribe" option on job
submission. May be followed with a colon and maximum number of jobs in
running or suspended state. For example "OverSubscribe=YES:4" enables
each node, socket or core to execute up to four jobs at once.
Recommended only for systems running with gang scheduling
(PreemptMode=suspend,gang).
NO Selected resources are allocated to a single job. No resource will be
allocated to more than one job.
PartitionName
Name by which the partition may be referenced (e.g. "Interactive"). This name can
be specified by users when submitting jobs. If the PartitionName is "DEFAULT", the
values specified with that record will apply to subsequent partition specifications
unless explicitly set to other values in that partition record or replaced with a
different set of default values. Each line where PartitionName is "DEFAULT" will
replace or add to previous default values and not a reinitialize the default
values.
PreemptMode
Mechanism used to preempt jobs from this partition when
PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio is configured. This partition specific
PreemptMode configuration parameter will override the PreemptMode configuration
parameter set for the cluster as a whole. The cluster-level PreemptMode must
include the GANG option if PreemptMode is configured to SUSPEND for any partition.
The cluster-level PreemptMode must not be OFF if PreemptMode is enabled for any
partition. See the description of the cluster-level PreemptMode configuration
parameter above for further information.
PriorityJobFactor
Partition factor used by priority/multifactor plugin in calculating job priority.
The value may not exceed 65533. Also see PriorityTier.
PriorityTier
Jobs submitted to a partition with a higher priority tier value will be dispatched
before pending jobs in partition with lower priority tier value and, if possible,
they will preempt running jobs from partitions with lower priority tier values.
Note that a partition's priority tier takes precedence over a job's priority. The
value may not exceed 65533. Also see PriorityJobFactor.
QOS Used to extend the limits available to a QOS on a partition. Jobs will not be
associated to this QOS outside of being associated to the partition. They will
still be associated to their requested QOS. By default, no QOS is used. NOTE: If
a limit is set in both the Partition's QOS and the Job's QOS the Partition QOS will
be honored unless the Job's QOS has the OverPartQOS flag set in which the Job's QOS
will have priority.
ReqResv
Specifies users of this partition are required to designate a reservation when
submitting a job. This option can be useful in restricting usage of a partition
that may have higher priority or additional resources to be allowed only within a
reservation. Possible values are "YES" and "NO". The default value is "NO".
RootOnly
Specifies if only user ID zero (i.e. user root) may allocate resources in this
partition. User root may allocate resources for any other user, but the request
must be initiated by user root. This option can be useful for a partition to be
managed by some external entity (e.g. a higher-level job manager) and prevents
users from directly using those resources. Possible values are "YES" and "NO".
The default value is "NO".
SelectTypeParameters
Partition-specific resource allocation type. This option replaces the global
SelectTypeParameters value. Supported values are CR_Core, CR_Core_Memory,
CR_Socket and CR_Socket_Memory. Use requires the system-wide SelectTypeParameters
value be set to any of the four supported values previously listed; otherwise, the
partition-specific value will be ignored.
Shared The Shared configuration parameter has been replaced by the OverSubscribe parameter
described above.
State State of partition or availability for use. Possible values are "UP", "DOWN",
"DRAIN" and "INACTIVE". The default value is "UP". See also the related
"Alternate" keyword.
UP Designates that new jobs may be queued on the partition, and that jobs
may be allocated nodes and run from the partition.
DOWN Designates that new jobs may be queued on the partition, but queued jobs
may not be allocated nodes and run from the partition. Jobs already
running on the partition continue to run. The jobs must be explicitly
canceled to force their termination.
DRAIN Designates that no new jobs may be queued on the partition (job
submission requests will be denied with an error message), but jobs
already queued on the partition may be allocated nodes and run. See also
the "Alternate" partition specification.
INACTIVE Designates that no new jobs may be queued on the partition, and jobs
already queued may not be allocated nodes and run. See also the
"Alternate" partition specification.
TRESBillingWeights
TRESBillingWeights is used to define the billing weights of each TRES type that
will be used in calculating the usage of a job. The calculated usage is used when
calculating fairshare and when enforcing the TRES billing limit on jobs.
Billing weights are specified as a comma-separated list of <TRES Type>=<TRES
Billing Weight> pairs.
Any TRES Type is available for billing. Note that the base unit for memory and
burst buffers is megabytes.
By default the billing of TRES is calculated as the sum of all TRES types
multiplied by their corresponding billing weight.
The weighted amount of a resource can be adjusted by adding a suffix of K,M,G,T or
P after the billing weight. For example, a memory weight of "mem=.25" on a job
allocated 8GB will be billed 2048 (8192MB *.25) units. A memory weight of
"mem=.25G" on the same job will be billed 2 (8192MB * (.25/1024)) units.
Negative values are allowed.
When a job is allocated 1 CPU and 8 GB of memory on a partition configured with
TRESBillingWeights="CPU=1.0,Mem=0.25G,GRES/gpu=2.0", the billable TRES will be:
(1*1.0) + (8*0.25) + (0*2.0) = 3.0.
If PriorityFlags=MAX_TRES is configured, the billable TRES is calculated as the MAX
of individual TRES' on a node (e.g. cpus, mem, gres) plus the sum of all global
TRES' (e.g. licenses). Using the same example above the billable TRES will be
MAX(1*1.0, 8*0.25) + (0*2.0) = 2.0.
If TRESBillingWeights is not defined then the job is billed against the total
number of allocated CPUs.
NOTE: TRESBillingWeights doesn't affect job priority directly as it is currently
not used for the size of the job. If you want TRES' to play a role in the job's
priority then refer to the PriorityWeightTRES option.
Prolog and Epilog Scripts
There are a variety of prolog and epilog program options that execute with various
permissions and at various times. The four options most likely to be used are: Prolog and
Epilog (executed once on each compute node for each job) plus PrologSlurmctld and
EpilogSlurmctld (executed once on the ControlMachine for each job).
NOTE: Standard output and error messages are normally not preserved. Explicitly write
output and error messages to an appropriate location if you wish to preserve that
information.
NOTE: By default the Prolog script is ONLY run on any individual node when it first sees
a job step from a new allocation; it does not run the Prolog immediately when an
allocation is granted. If no job steps from an allocation are run on a node, it will
never run the Prolog for that allocation. This Prolog behaviour can be changed by the
PrologFlags parameter. The Epilog, on the other hand, always runs on every node of an
allocation when the allocation is released.
If the Epilog fails (returns a non-zero exit code), this will result in the node being set
to a DRAIN state. If the EpilogSlurmctld fails (returns a non-zero exit code), this will
only be logged. If the Prolog fails (returns a non-zero exit code), this will result in
the node being set to a DRAIN state and the job being requeued in a held state unless
nohold_on_prolog_fail is configured in SchedulerParameters. If the PrologSlurmctld fails
(returns a non-zero exit code), this will result in the job requeued to executed on
another node if possible. Only batch jobs can be requeued.
Interactive jobs (salloc and srun) will be cancelled if the PrologSlurmctld fails.
Information about the job is passed to the script using environment variables. Unless
otherwise specified, these environment variables are available to all of the programs.
SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID
If this job is part of a job array, this will be set to the job ID. Otherwise it
will not be set. To reference this specific task of a job array, combine
SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID with SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID (e.g. "scontrol update
${SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID}_{$SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID} ..."); Available in PrologSlurmctld
and EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID
If this job is part of a job array, this will be set to the task ID. Otherwise it
will not be set. To reference this specific task of a job array, combine
SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID with SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID (e.g. "scontrol update
${SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID}_{$SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID} ..."); Available in PrologSlurmctld
and EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_MAX
If this job is part of a job array, this will be set to the maximum task ID.
Otherwise it will not be set. Available in PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld
only.
SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_MIN
If this job is part of a job array, this will be set to the minimum task ID.
Otherwise it will not be set. Available in PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld
only.
SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_STEP
If this job is part of a job array, this will be set to the step size of task IDs.
Otherwise it will not be set. Available in PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld
only.
SLURM_CLUSTER_NAME
Name of the cluster executing the job.
SLURM_JOB_ACCOUNT
Account name used for the job. Available in PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld
only.
SLURM_JOB_CONSTRAINTS
Features required to run the job. Available in Prolog, PrologSlurmctld and
EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_DERIVED_EC
The highest exit code of all of the job steps. Available in EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE
The exit code of the job script (or salloc). The value is the status as returned by
the wait() system call (See wait(2)) Available in EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE2
The exit code of the job script (or salloc). The value has the format <exit>:<sig>.
The first number is the exit code, typically as set by the exit() function. The
second number of the signal that caused the process to terminate if it was
terminated by a signal. Available in EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_GID
Group ID of the job's owner. Available in PrologSlurmctld, EpilogSlurmctld and
TaskProlog only.
SLURM_JOB_GPUS
GPU IDs allocated to the job (if any). Available in the Prolog only.
SLURM_JOB_GROUP
Group name of the job's owner. Available in PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld
only.
SLURM_JOB_ID
Job ID. CAUTION: If this job is the first task of a job array, then Slurm commands
using this job ID will refer to the entire job array rather than this specific task
of the job array.
SLURM_JOB_NAME
Name of the job. Available in PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_NODELIST
Nodes assigned to job. A Slurm hostlist expression. "scontrol show hostnames" can
be used to convert this to a list of individual host names. Available in
PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_PARTITION
Partition that job runs in. Available in Prolog, PrologSlurmctld and
EpilogSlurmctld only.
SLURM_JOB_UID
User ID of the job's owner.
SLURM_JOB_USER
User name of the job's owner.
NETWORK TOPOLOGY
Slurm is able to optimize job allocations to minimize network contention. Special Slurm
logic is used to optimize allocations on systems with a three-dimensional interconnect.
and information about configuring those systems are available on web pages available here:
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/>. For a hierarchical network, Slurm needs to have detailed
information about how nodes are configured on the network switches.
Given network topology information, Slurm allocates all of a job's resources onto a single
leaf of the network (if possible) using a best-fit algorithm. Otherwise it will allocate
a job's resources onto multiple leaf switches so as to minimize the use of higher-level
switches. The TopologyPlugin parameter controls which plugin is used to collect network
topology information. The only values presently supported are "topology/3d_torus"
(default for Cray XT/XE systems, performs best-fit logic over three-dimensional topology),
"topology/none" (default for other systems, best-fit logic over one-dimensional topology),
"topology/tree" (determine the network topology based upon information contained in a
topology.conf file, see "man topology.conf" for more information). Future plugins may
gather topology information directly from the network. The topology information is
optional. If not provided, Slurm will perform a best-fit algorithm assuming the nodes are
in a one-dimensional array as configured and the communications cost is related to the
node distance in this array.
RELOCATING CONTROLLERS
If the cluster's computers used for the primary or backup controller will be out of
service for an extended period of time, it may be desirable to relocate them. In order to
do so, follow this procedure:
1. Stop the Slurm daemons
2. Modify the slurm.conf file appropriately
3. Distribute the updated slurm.conf file to all nodes
4. Restart the Slurm daemons
There should be no loss of any running or pending jobs. Ensure that any nodes added to
the cluster have the current slurm.conf file installed.
CAUTION: If two nodes are simultaneously configured as the primary controller (two nodes
on which ControlMachine specify the local host and the slurmctld daemon is executing on
each), system behavior will be destructive. If a compute node has an incorrect
ControlMachine or BackupController parameter, that node may be rendered unusable, but no
other harm will result.
EXAMPLE
#
# Sample /etc/slurm.conf for dev[0-25].llnl.gov
# Author: John Doe
# Date: 11/06/2001
#
SlurmctldHost=dev0(12.34.56.78) # Primary server
SlurmctldHost=dev1(12.34.56.79) # Backup server
#
AuthType=auth/munge
Epilog=/usr/local/slurm/epilog
Prolog=/usr/local/slurm/prolog
FirstJobId=65536
InactiveLimit=120
JobCompType=jobcomp/filetxt
JobCompLoc=/var/log/slurm/jobcomp
KillWait=30
MaxJobCount=10000
MinJobAge=3600
PluginDir=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/slurm/lib
ReturnToService=0
SchedulerType=sched/backfill
SlurmctldLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log
SlurmdLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmd.log
SlurmctldPort=7002
SlurmdPort=7003
SlurmdSpoolDir=/var/spool/slurmd.spool
StateSaveLocation=/var/spool/slurm.state
SwitchType=switch/none
TmpFS=/tmp
WaitTime=30
JobCredentialPrivateKey=/usr/local/slurm/private.key
JobCredentialPublicCertificate=/usr/local/slurm/public.cert
#
# Node Configurations
#
NodeName=DEFAULT CPUs=2 RealMemory=2000 TmpDisk=64000
NodeName=DEFAULT State=UNKNOWN
NodeName=dev[0-25] NodeAddr=edev[0-25] Weight=16
# Update records for specific DOWN nodes
DownNodes=dev20 State=DOWN Reason="power,ETA=Dec25"
#
# Partition Configurations
#
PartitionName=DEFAULT MaxTime=30 MaxNodes=10 State=UP
PartitionName=debug Nodes=dev[0-8,18-25] Default=YES
PartitionName=batch Nodes=dev[9-17] MinNodes=4
PartitionName=long Nodes=dev[9-17] MaxTime=120 AllowGroups=admin
INCLUDE MODIFIERS
The "include" key word can be used with modifiers within the specified pathname. These
modifiers would be replaced with cluster name or other information depending on which
modifier is specified. If the included file is not an absolute path name (i.e. it does not
start with a slash), it will searched for in the same directory as the slurm.conf file.
%c Cluster name specified in the slurm.conf will be used.
EXAMPLE
ClusterName=linux
include /home/slurm/etc/%c_config
# Above line interpreted as
# "include /home/slurm/etc/linux_config"
FILE AND DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS
There are three classes of files: Files used by slurmctld must be accessible by user
SlurmUser and accessible by the primary and backup control machines. Files used by slurmd
must be accessible by user root and accessible from every compute node. A few files need
to be accessible by normal users on all login and compute nodes. While many files and
directories are listed below, most of them will not be used with most configurations.
AccountingStorageLoc
If this specifies a file, it must be writable by user SlurmUser. The file must be
accessible by the primary and backup control machines. It is recommended that the
file be readable by all users from login and compute nodes.
Epilog Must be executable by user root. It is recommended that the file be readable by
all users. The file must exist on every compute node.
EpilogSlurmctld
Must be executable by user SlurmUser. It is recommended that the file be readable
by all users. The file must be accessible by the primary and backup control
machines.
HealthCheckProgram
Must be executable by user root. It is recommended that the file be readable by
all users. The file must exist on every compute node.
JobCheckpointDir
Must be writable by user SlurmUser and no other users. The file must be accessible
by the primary and backup control machines.
JobCompLoc
If this specifies a file, it must be writable by user SlurmUser. The file must be
accessible by the primary and backup control machines.
JobCredentialPrivateKey
Must be readable only by user SlurmUser and writable by no other users. The file
must be accessible by the primary and backup control machines.
JobCredentialPublicCertificate
Readable to all users on all nodes. Must not be writable by regular users.
MailProg
Must be executable by user SlurmUser. Must not be writable by regular users. The
file must be accessible by the primary and backup control machines.
Prolog Must be executable by user root. It is recommended that the file be readable by
all users. The file must exist on every compute node.
PrologSlurmctld
Must be executable by user SlurmUser. It is recommended that the file be readable
by all users. The file must be accessible by the primary and backup control
machines.
ResumeProgram
Must be executable by user SlurmUser. The file must be accessible by the primary
and backup control machines.
SallocDefaultCommand
Must be executable by all users. The file must exist on every login and compute
node.
slurm.conf
Readable to all users on all nodes. Must not be writable by regular users.
SlurmctldLogFile
Must be writable by user SlurmUser. The file must be accessible by the primary and
backup control machines.
SlurmctldPidFile
Must be writable by user root. Preferably writable and removable by SlurmUser.
The file must be accessible by the primary and backup control machines.
SlurmdLogFile
Must be writable by user root. A distinct file must exist on each compute node.
SlurmdPidFile
Must be writable by user root. A distinct file must exist on each compute node.
SlurmdSpoolDir
Must be writable by user root. A distinct file must exist on each compute node.
SrunEpilog
Must be executable by all users. The file must exist on every login and compute
node.
SrunProlog
Must be executable by all users. The file must exist on every login and compute
node.
StateSaveLocation
Must be writable by user SlurmUser. The file must be accessible by the primary and
backup control machines.
SuspendProgram
Must be executable by user SlurmUser. The file must be accessible by the primary
and backup control machines.
TaskEpilog
Must be executable by all users. The file must exist on every compute node.
TaskProlog
Must be executable by all users. The file must exist on every compute node.
UnkillableStepProgram
Must be executable by user SlurmUser. The file must be accessible by the primary
and backup control machines.
LOGGING
Note that while Slurm daemons create log files and other files as needed, it treats the
lack of parent directories as a fatal error. This prevents the daemons from running if
critical file systems are not mounted and will minimize the risk of cold-starting
(starting without preserving jobs).
Log files and job accounting files, may need to be created/owned by the "SlurmUser" uid to
be successfully accessed. Use the "chown" and "chmod" commands to set the ownership and
permissions appropriately. See the section FILE AND DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS for information
about the various files and directories used by Slurm.
It is recommended that the logrotate utility be used to ensure that various log files do
not become too large. This also applies to text files used for accounting, process
tracking, and the slurmdbd log if they are used.
Here is a sample logrotate configuration. Make appropriate site modifications and save as
/etc/logrotate.d/slurm on all nodes. See the logrotate man page for more details.
##
# Slurm Logrotate Configuration
##
/var/log/slurm/*.log {
compress
missingok
nocopytruncate
nodelaycompress
nomail
notifempty
noolddir
rotate 5
sharedscripts
size=5M
create 640 slurm root
postrotate
pkill -x --signal SIGUSR2 slurmctld
pkill -x --signal SIGUSR2 slurmd
pkill -x --signal SIGUSR2 slurmdbd
exit 0
endscript
}
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 The Regents of the University of California. Produced at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence Livermore National Security.
Copyright (C) 2010-2017 SchedMD LLC.
This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.
Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
FILES
/etc/slurm.conf
SEE ALSO
cgroup.conf(5), gethostbyname (3), getrlimit (2), gres.conf(5), group (5), hostname (1),
scontrol(1), slurmctld(8), slurmd(8), slurmdbd(8), slurmdbd.conf(5), srun(1), spank(8),
syslog (2), topology.conf(5)