Re: [slurm-users] Disabling SWAP space will it effect SLURM working

2023-12-11 Thread Paul Edmon
We've been running for years with out swap on with no issues. You may want to set MemSpecLimit in your config to reserve memory for the OS, so that way you don't OOM the system with user jobs: https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm.conf.html#OPT_MemSpecLimit -Paul Edmon- On 12/11/2023 11:19 AM,

Re: [slurm-users] Disabling SWAP space will it effect SLURM working

2023-12-11 Thread Davide DelVento
A little late here, but yes everything Hans said is correct and if you are worried about slurm (or other critical system software) getting killed by OOM, you can workaround it by properly configuring cgroup. On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 2:06 AM Hans van Schoot wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > This might

Re: [slurm-users] Disabling SWAP space will it effect SLURM working

2023-12-06 Thread Hans van Schoot
Hi Joseph, This might depend on the rest of your configuration, but in general swap should not be needed for anything on Linux. BUT: you might get OOM killer messages in your system logs, and SLURM might fall victim to the OOM killer (OOM = Out Of Memory) if you run applications on the

[slurm-users] Disabling SWAP space will it effect SLURM working

2023-12-05 Thread John Joseph
Dear All, Good morning We have 4 node   [256 GB Ram in each node]  SLURM instance  with which we installed and it is working fine. We have 2 GB of SWAP space on each node,  for some purpose  to make the system in full use want to disable the SWAP memory,  Like to know if I am disabling the SWAP