This was discussed numbers of times before. You can check the list archive, or start for instance with: https://github.com/fafik23/slurm_plugins/tree/master/bindtmp
cheers marcin 2016-06-24 7:22 GMT+02:00 Lachlan Musicman <data...@gmail.com>: > We are transitioning from Torque/Maui to SLURM and have only just noticed > that SLURM puts all files in /tmp and doesn't create a per job/user TMPDIR. > > On searching, we have found a number of options for creation of TMPDIR on > the fly using SPANK and lua and prolog/epilog. > > I am looking for something relatively benign, since this we are still > learning the new paradigm. > > One thing in particular: our /tmp files are SSD local to CPU rather than > on a shared filesystem for speed, so we will need to remove the tmps > > So I was looking at the --prolog and --task-prolog options, doing a little > testing on how I might export TMPDIR > > I had a very simple > > srun --prolog=/data/pro.sh --task-prolog=/data/t-pro.sh -l hostname > > pro.sh > > #!/bin/bash > echo "PROLOG: this is from the prologue. currently on `hostname`" > > t-pro.sh > > #!/bin/bash > echo "TASK-PROLOG: this is from the task-prologue. currently on > `hostname`" > > /data is a shared file system and is the WORKDIR > > I'm getting results from --prolog but not from --task-prolog. > Running this instead: > > srun --task-prolog=/data/t-pro.sh -l hostname > > I confirm still no output from task-prolog. > > What am I doing wrong? > > (both scripts have a+x) > > cheers > L. > > ------ > The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this > way." > > - Grace Hopper >
