Ubuntu Manpage: cgroup.conf - Slurm configuration file for the cgroup support

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NAME

       cgroup.conf - Slurm configuration file for the cgroup support

DESCRIPTION

cgroup.conf is an ASCII file which defines parameters used by Slurm's Linux cgroup related
plugins. The file will always be located in the same directory as the slurm.conf.

Parameter names are case insensitive. 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.

For general Slurm cgroups information, see the Cgroups Guide at
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/cgroups.html>.

The following cgroup.conf parameters are defined to control the general behavior of Slurm
cgroup plugins.

CgroupMountpoint=PATH
Only intended for development and testing. Specifies the PATH under which cgroup
controllers should be mounted. The default PATH is /sys/fs/cgroup.

CgroupPlugin=<cgroup/v1|cgroup/v2|autodetect|disabled>
Specify the plugin to be used when interacting with the cgroup subsystem.
Supported values are "disabled", to completely disable any interaction with the
cgroups, "cgroup/v1" which supports the legacy interface of cgroup v1, "cgroup/v2"
for the unified cgroup2 architecture, and "autodetect" which tries to determine
which cgroup version does your system provide. "autodetect" is useful to have a
single configuration in clusters where nodes can have different cgroup versions.
The default value is "autodetect".

SystemdTimeout=<number>
On slow systems like virtual machines or when systemd is busy, it can take a lot of
time to initialize and prepare the scope for slurmd during startup. Slurm will
wait a maximum of this amount of time (in milliseconds) for the scope to be ready
before failing. Only applies to cgroup/v2. The default is 1000 ms.

IgnoreSystemd=<yes|no>
Only for cgroup/v2 and for development and testing. It will avoid any call to dbus
and contact with systemd, and instead will prepare all the cgroup hierarchy
manually. This option is dangerous in systems with systemd since the cgroup can be
modified by systemd and cause issues to jobs.

IgnoreSystemdOnFailure=<yes|no>
Only for cgroup/v2 and for development and testing. It has similar functionality to
IgnoreSystemd but only in the case that a dbus call does not succeed.

EnableControllers=<yes|no>
Only for cgroup/v2 and generally for development, testing, when running on old
kernels and/or old systemd versions (e.g. RHEL8, systemd < 244) where not all the
controllers are enabled in the cgroup tree. With this parameter, slurmd gets the
available controllers from root's cgroup.controllers file (CgroupMountPoint, by
default /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.controllers) and makes them available in all levels
of the cgroup tree until it reaches Slurm's cgroup leaf.

TASK/CGROUP PLUGIN

The following cgroup.conf parameters are defined to control the behavior of this
particular plugin:

AllowedRAMSpace=<number>
Constrain the job/step cgroup RAM to this percentage of the allocated memory. The
percentage supplied may be expressed as floating point number, e.g. 101.5. Sets
the cgroup soft memory limit at the allocated memory size and then sets the
job/step hard memory limit at the (AllowedRAMSpace/100) * allocated memory. If the
job/step exceeds the hard limit, then it might trigger Out Of Memory (OOM) events
(including oom-kill) which will be logged to kernel log ring buffer (dmesg in
Linux). Setting AllowedRAMSpace above 100 may cause system Out of Memory (OOM)
events as it allows job/step to allocate more memory than configured to the nodes.
Reducing configured node available memory to avoid system OOM events is suggested.
Setting AllowedRAMSpace below 100 will result in jobs receiving less memory than
allocated and soft memory limit will set to the same value as the hard limit. Also
see ConstrainRAMSpace. The default value is 100.

AllowedSwapSpace=<number>
Constrain the job cgroup swap space to this percentage of the allocated memory. The
default value is 0, which means that RAM+Swap will be limited to AllowedRAMSpace.
The supplied percentage may be expressed as a floating point number, e.g. 50.5. If
the limit is exceeded, the job steps will be killed and a warning message will be
written to standard error. Also see ConstrainSwapSpace. NOTE: Setting
AllowedSwapSpace to 0 does not restrict the Linux kernel from using swap space. To
control how the kernel uses swap space, see MemorySwappiness.

ConstrainCores=<yes|no>
If configured to "yes" then constrain allowed cores to the subset of allocated
resources. This functionality makes use of the cpuset subsystem. Due to a bug
fixed in version 1.11.5 of HWLOC, the task/affinity plugin may be required in
addition to task/cgroup for this to function properly. The default value is "no".

ConstrainDevices=<yes|no>
If configured to "yes" then constrain the job's allowed devices based on GRES
allocated resources. It uses the devices subsystem for that. The default value is
"no".

ConstrainRAMSpace=<yes|no>
If configured to "yes" then constrain the job's RAM usage by setting the memory
soft limit to the allocated memory and the hard limit to the allocated memory *
AllowedRAMSpace. The default value is "no", in which case the job's RAM limit will
be set to its swap space limit if ConstrainSwapSpace is set to "yes". CR_*_Memory
must be set in slurm.conf for this parameter to take any effect. Also see
AllowedSwapSpace, AllowedRAMSpace and ConstrainSwapSpace.

NOTE: When using ConstrainRAMSpace, if the combined memory used by all processes in
a step is greater than the limit, then the kernel will trigger an OOM event,
killing one or more of the processes in the step. The step state will be marked as
OOM, but the step itself will keep running and other processes in the step may
continue to run as well. This differs from the behavior of OverMemoryKill, where
the whole step will be killed/cancelled.

NOTE: When enabled, ConstrainRAMSpace can lead to a noticeable decline in per-node
job throughout. Sites with high-throughput requirements should carefully weigh the
tradeoff between per-node throughput, versus potential problems that can arise from
unconstrained memory usage on the node. See
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/high_throughput.html> for further discussion.

ConstrainSwapSpace=<yes|no>
If configured to "yes" then constrain the job's swap space usage. The default
value is "no". Note that when set to "yes" and ConstrainRAMSpace is set to "no",
AllowedRAMSpace is automatically set to 100% in order to limit the RAM+Swap amount
to 100% of job's requirement plus the percent of allowed swap space. This amount is
thus set to both RAM and RAM+Swap limits. This means that in that particular case,
ConstrainRAMSpace is automatically enabled with the same limit as the one used to
constrain swap space. CR_*_Memory must be set in slurm.conf for this parameter to
take any effect. Also see AllowedSwapSpace.

MaxRAMPercent=PERCENT
Set an upper bound in percent of total RAM (configured RealMemory of the node) on
the RAM constraint for a job. This will be the memory constraint applied to jobs
that are not explicitly allocated memory by Slurm (i.e. Slurm's select plugin is
not configured to manage memory allocations). The PERCENT may be an arbitrary
floating point number. The default value is 100.

MaxSwapPercent=PERCENT
Set an upper bound (in percent of total RAM, configured RealMemory of the node) on
the amount of RAM+Swap that may be used for a job. This will be the swap limit
applied to jobs on systems where memory is not being explicitly allocated to job.
The PERCENT may be an arbitrary floating point number between 0 and 100. The
default value is 100.

MemorySwappiness=<number>
Only for cgroup/v1. Configure the kernel's priority for swapping out anonymous
pages (such as program data) verses file cache pages for the job cgroup. Valid
values are between 0 and 100, inclusive. A value of 0 prevents the kernel from
swapping out program data. A value of 100 gives equal priority to swapping out file
cache or anonymous pages. If not set, then the kernel's default swappiness value
will be used. ConstrainSwapSpace must be set to yes in order for this parameter to
be applied.

MinRAMSpace=<number>
Set a lower bound (in MB) on the memory limits defined by AllowedRAMSpace and
AllowedSwapSpace. This prevents accidentally creating a memory cgroup with such a
low limit that slurmstepd is immediately killed due to lack of RAM. The default
limit is 30M.

PROCTRACK/CGROUP PLUGIN

       The  following  cgroup.conf  parameters  are  defined  to  control  the  behavior  of this
       particular plugin:

       SignalChildrenProcesses=<yes|no>
              If configured to "yes", then send signals (for  cancelling,  suspending,  resuming,
              etc.)  to all children processes in a job/step. Otherwise, only send signals to the
              parent process of a job/step. The default setting is "no".

DISTRIBUTION-SPECIFIC NOTES

       Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) usually exclude the memory and memsw  (swap)  cgroups
       by  default.  To  include  them,  add the following parameters to the kernel command line:
       cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1

       This can usually be placed in /etc/default/grub inside the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable.  A
       command such as update-grub must be run after updating the file.

EXAMPLE

       /etc/slurm/cgroup.conf:
              This  example cgroup.conf file shows a configuration that enables the more commonly
              used cgroup enforcement mechanisms.

              ###
              # Slurm cgroup support configuration file.
              ###
              ConstrainCores=yes
              ConstrainDevices=yes
              ConstrainRAMSpace=yes
              ConstrainSwapSpace=yes

       /etc/slurm/slurm.conf:
              These are the entries required in slurm.conf to  activate  the  cgroup  enforcement
              mechanisms.  Make  sure  that the node definitions in your slurm.conf closely match
              the configuration as shown by "slurmd -C".  Either MemSpecLimit should  be  set  or
              RealMemory  should be defined with less than the actual amount of memory for a node
              to ensure that all system/non-job processes will  have  sufficient  memory  at  all
              times.  Sites  should also configure pam_slurm_adopt to ensure users can not escape
              the cgroups via ssh.

              ###
              # Slurm configuration entries for cgroups
              ###
              ProctrackType=proctrack/cgroup
              TaskPlugin=task/cgroup,task/affinity
              JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/cgroup #optional for gathering metrics
              PrologFlags=Contain                     #X11 flag is also suggested

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