I have had two nights where right at 3:35am a bunch of jobs were
killed early with TIMEOUT way before their normal TimeLimit.
The slurmctld log has lots of lines like at 3:35am with
[2022-09-12T03:35:02.303] job_time_limit: inactivity time limit reached
for JobId=1636922
with jobs running on serveral different nodes.
The one curious thing is right about this time log rotation is happening
in cron on the slurmctld master node
Sep 12 03:30:02 mlsc-head run-parts[1719028]: (/etc/cron.daily) starting
logrotate
Sep 12 03:34:59 mlsc-head run-parts[1719028]: (/etc/cron.daily)
finished logrotate
The 5 minute runtime here is a big anomoly. On other machines, like
nodes just running slurmd or my web servers, this only takes a couple of
seconds.
In /etc/logrotate.d/slurmctl I have
postrotate
systemctl reload slurmdbd >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
/bin/sleep 1
systemctl reload slurmctld >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript
Does it make sense that this could be causing the issue?
In slurm.conf I had InactiveLimit=60 which I guess is what is happening
but my reading of the docs on this setting was it only affects the
starting of a job with srun/salloc and not a job that has been running
for days. Is it InactiveLimit that leads to the "inactivity time limit
reached" message?
Anyway, I have changed InactiveLimit=600 to see if that helps.
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