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

       -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.

       -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 <hostname>
              Run  the daemon with the given hostname. 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     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.  Produced  at  Lawrence  Livermore  National  Laboratory  (cf,  DISCLAIMER).
       CODE-OCEC-09-009. All rights reserved.

       This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program.  For details, see <http://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)

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