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NAME
slurmd - The compute node daemon for Slurm.
SYNOPSIS
slurmd [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
slurmd is the compute node daemon of Slurm. It monitors all tasks running on the compute node , accepts
work (tasks), launches tasks, and kills running tasks upon request.
OPTIONS
-b Report node rebooted when daemon restarted. Used for testing purposes.
-c Clear system locks as needed. This may be required if slurmd terminated abnormally.
-C Print actual hardware configuration and exit. The format of output is the same as used in
slurm.conf to describe a node's configuration plus it's uptime.
-d <file>
Specify the fully qualified pathname to the slurmstepd program to be used for shepherding user job
steps. This can be useful for testing purposes.
-D Run slurmd in the foreground. Error and debug messages will be copied to stderr.
-f <file>
Read configuration from the specified file. See NOTES below.
-G Print Generic RESource (GRES) configuration (based upon slurm.conf GRES merged with gres.conf
contents for this node) and exit.
-h Help; print a brief summary of command options.
-L <file>
Write log messages to the specified file.
-M Lock slurmd pages into system memory using mlockall (2) to disable paging of the slurmd process.
This may help in cases where nodes are marked DOWN during periods of heavy swap activity. If the
mlockall (2) system call is not available, an error will be printed to the log and slurmd will
continue as normal.
-n <value>
Set the daemon's nice value to the specified value, typically a negative number. Also note the
PropagatePrioProcess configuration parameter.
-N <nodename>
Run the daemon with the given nodename. Used to emulate a larger system with more than one slurmd
daemon per node. Requires that Slurm be built using the --enable-multiple-slurmd configure option.
-v Verbose operation. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.
-V, --version
Print version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables can be used to override settings compiled into slurmd.
SLURM_CONF The location of the Slurm configuration file. This is overridden by explicitly
naming a configuration file on the command line.
CORE FILE LOCATION
If slurmd is started with the -D option then the core file will be written to the current working
directory. Otherwise if SlurmdLogFile is a fully qualified path name (starting with a slash), the core
file will be written to the same directory as the log file. Otherwise the core file will be written to
the SlurmSpoolDir directory, or "/var/tmp/" as a last resort. If none of the above directories can be
written, no core file will be produced.
NOTES
It may be useful to experiment with different slurmd specific configuration parameters using a distinct
configuration file (e.g. timeouts). However, this special configuration file will not be used by the
slurmctld daemon or the Slurm programs, unless you specifically tell each of them to use it. If you
desire changing communication ports, the location of the temporary file system, or other parameters used
by other Slurm components, change the common configuration file, slurm.conf.
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 The Regents of the University of California. Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence
Livermore National Security. Copyright (C) 2010-2016 SchedMD LLC. Produced at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
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
slurm.conf(5), slurmctld(8)