[slurm-users] Question about sacct

2018-05-15 Thread Zohar Roe MLM
Hello, Trying to understand some problems with "sacct " command. I sent 10 jobs to slurm and I can see them all running in with squeue command. Now, when I am running "sacct -j 398000" to check one of the jobs, I see two problems: 1) Its take the sacct command about 3 minutes to return r

Re: [slurm-users] x11 for interactive jobs

2018-05-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Hi, I followed the steps described in [1]. However, srun still says --x11 is not a valid option. Should I restart slurm processes? That is not mentioned in that document. [root@rocks7 ~]# git clone https://github.com/hautreux/slurm-spank-x11 Cloning into 'slurm-spank-x11'... remote: Counting obje

Re: [slurm-users] Distribute jobs in similar nodes in the same partition

2018-05-15 Thread Marcus Wagner
Hi Antonio, if you don't care, which nodes are used, but want to ensure that only uniform nodes are used, you could also use the topology/tree plugin, where you define on "switch" for every node type and then use sbatch --switches=1. Best Marcus On 05/11/2018 05:49 PM, Antonio Lara wrote:

Re: [slurm-users] x11 for interactive jobs

2018-05-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Thanks for responses. Ian, I will contact you. Regards, Mahmood On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Marco Ehlert wrote: > Hi, > > if you are compiling slurm 17.11.5 the --x11 option will be in only if > libssh2.so is installed before. > Otherwise there will be no such option. > > Best, > Marco

Re: [slurm-users] x11 for interactive jobs

2018-05-15 Thread Marco Ehlert
Hi, if you are compiling slurm 17.11.5 the --x11 option will be in only if libssh2.so is installed before. Otherwise there will be no such option. Best, Marco IT-Support Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids Tel: +49-(0)331-567-9650 and InterfacesFax:

[slurm-users] x11 requires root write access to .Xauthority

2018-05-15 Thread Marco Ehlert
Hi, in slurm 17.11.5 I just realized that slurmstepd tries to add the X11 magic cookie into .Xauthority inside root context in order to make x11 natively work. The filesystem has to be configured to allow this. I did this now, but I am wondering why it could not be done in the user's context