Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue

2019-11-07 Thread David Baker
agner Sent: 06 November 2019 09:53 To: David Baker ; slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com ; juergen.s...@uni-ulm.de Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue Hi David, if I remember right (we have disabled swap for years now), swapping out processes seem to slow down the system ov

Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue

2019-11-06 Thread Marcus Wagner
half of Marcus Wagner *Sent:* 05 November 2019 07:47 *To:* slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com *Subject:* Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue Hi David, doing it the way you do it, is the same way, we do it. When the Matlab job asks for one CPU, it only gets on CPU this way. That mean

Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue

2019-11-05 Thread David Baker
To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue Hi David, doing it the way you do it, is the same way, we do it. When the Matlab job asks for one CPU, it only gets on CPU this way. That means, that all the processes are bound to this one CPU. So (theoreti

Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue

2019-11-04 Thread Marcus Wagner
Hi David, doing it the way you do it, is the same way, we do it. When the Matlab job asks for one CPU, it only gets on CPU this way. That means, that all the processes are bound to this one CPU. So (theoretically) the user is just disturbing himself, if he uses more. But especially Matlab, t

Re: [slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue

2019-11-04 Thread Juergen Salk
* David Baker [191104 15:14]: > It looks like the downside of the serial queue is that jobs from > different users can interact quite badly. Hi David, what exactly do you mean with "jobs from different users can interact quite badly"? > [...] On the other hand I wonder if our cgroups setup i

[slurm-users] Running job using our serial queue

2019-11-04 Thread David Baker
Hello, We decided to route all jobs requesting from 1 to 20 cores to our serial queue. Furthermore, the nodes controlled by the serial queue are shared by multiple users. We did this to try to reduce the level of fragmentation across the cluster -- our default "batch" queue provides exclusive a