We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 15.08.5
which includes about 30 bug fixes developed over the past few weeks as
listed below. Slurm downloads are available from:
http://www.schedmd.com/#repos
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.5
==========================
-- Prevent "scontrol update job" from updating jobs that have
already finished.
-- Show requested TRES in "squeue -O tres" when job is pending.
-- Backfill scheduler: Test association and QOS node limits before reserving
resources for pending job.
-- burst_buffer/cray: If teardown operations fails, sleep and retry.
-- Clean up the external pids when using the PrologFlags=Contain feature
and the job finishes.
-- burst_buffer/cray: Support file staging when job lacks job-specific buffer
(i.e. only persistent burst buffers).
-- Added srun option of --bcast to copy executable file to compute nodes.
-- Fix for advanced reservation of burst buffer space.
-- BurstBuffer/cray: Add logic to terminate dw_wlm_cli child processes at
shutdown.
-- If job can't be launch or requeued, then terminate it.
-- BurstBuffer/cray: Enable clearing of burst buffer string on completed job
as a means of recovering from a failure mode.
-- Fix wrong memory free when parsing SrunPortRange=0-0 configuration.
-- BurstBuffer/cray: Fix job record purging if cancelled from pending state.
-- BGQ - Handle database throw correctly when syncing users on blocks.
-- MySQL - Make sure we don't have a NULL string returned when not
requesting any specific association.
-- sched/backfill: If max_rpc_cnt is configured and the backlog of RPCs has
not cleared after yielding locks, then continue to sleep.
-- Preserve the job dependency description displayed in 'scontrol show job'
even if the dependee jobs was terminated and cleaned causing the
dependent to never run because of DependencyNeverSatisfied.
-- Correct job task count calculation if only node count and ntasks-per-node
options supplied.
-- Make sure the association manager converts any string to be lower case
as all the associations from the database will be lower case.
-- Sanity check for xcgroup_delete() to verify incoming parameter is valid.
-- Fix formatting for sacct with variables that switched from uint32_t to
uint64_t.
-- Fix a typo in sacct man page.
-- Set up extern step to track any childern of an ssh if it leaves anything
else behind.
-- Prevent slurmdbd divide by zero if no associations defined at rollup time.
-- Multifactor - Add sanity check to make sure pending jobs are handled
correctly when PriorityFlags=CALCULATE_RUNNING is set.
-- Add slurmdb_find_tres_count_in_string() to slurm db perl api.
-- Make lua dlopen() conditional on version found at build.
-- sched/backfill - Delay backfill scheduler for completing jobs only if
CompleteWait configuration parameter is set (make code match
documentation).
-- Release a job's allocated licenses only after epilog runs on all nodes
rather than at start of termination process.
-- Cray job NHC delayed until after burst buffer released and epilog
completes
on all allocated nodes.
-- Fix abort of srun if using PrologFlags=NoHold
-- Let devices step_extern cgroup inherit attributes of job cgroup.
-- Add new hook to Task plugin to be able to put adopted processes in the
step_extern cgroups.
-- Fix AllowUsers documentation in burst_buffer.conf man page. Usernames are
comma separated, not colon delimited.
-- Fix issue with time limit not being set correctly from a QOS when a job
requests no time limit.
-- Various CLANG fixes.
-- In both sched/basic and backfill: If a job can not be started due to some
account/qos limit, then don't start other jobs which could delay jobs. The
old logic would skip the job and start other jobs, which could delay the
higher priority job.
-- select/cray: Prevent NHC from running more than once per job or step.
-- Fix fields not properly printed when adding an account through sacctmgr.
-- Update LBNL Node Health Check (NHC) link on FAQ.
-- Fix multifactor plugin to prevent slurmctld from getting
segmentation fault
should the tres_alloc_cnt be NULL.
-- sbatch/salloc - Move nodelist logic before the time min_nodes is used
so we can set it correctly before tasks are set.
