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This file describes changes in recent versions of Slurm. It primarily
documents those changes that are of interest to users and administrators.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.7
==========================
-- Initialize some variables used with the srun --no-alloc option that may
cause random failures.
-- Add SchedulerParameters option of sched_min_interval that controls the
minimum time interval between any job scheduling action. The default value
is zero (disabled).
-- Change default SchedulerParameters=max_sched_time from 4 seconds to 2.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.6
==========================
-- If SchedulerParameters value of bf_min_age_reserve is configured, then
a newly submitted job can start immediately even if there is a higher
priority non-runnable job which has been waiting for less time than
bf_min_age_reserve.
-- qsub wrapper modified to export "all" with -V option
-- RequeueExit and RequeueExitHold configuration parameters modified to accept
numeric ranges. For example "RequeueExit=1,2,3,4" and "RequeueExit=1-4" are
equivalent.
-- Correct the job array specification parser to accept brackets in job array
expression (e.g. "123_[4,7-9]").
-- Fix for misleading job submit failure errors sent to users. Previous error
could indicate why specific nodes could not be used (e.g. too small memory)
when other nodes could be used, but were not for another reason.
-- Fix squeue --array to display correctly the array elements when the
% separator is specified at the array submission time.
-- Fix priority from not being calculated correctly due to memory issues.
-- Fix a transient pending reason 'JobId=job_id has invalid QOS'.
-- A non-administrator change to job priority will not be persistent except
for holding the job. User's wanting to change a job priority on a persistent
basis should reset it's "nice" value.
-- Print buffer sizes as unsigned values when failed to pack messages.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix race condition where sprio would print factors without weights applied.
-- Document the sacct option JobIDRaw which for arrays prints the jobid instead
of the arrayTaskId.
-- Allow users to modify MinCPUsNode, MinMemoryNode and MinTmpDiskNode of
their own jobs.
-- Increase the jobid print field in SQUEUE_FORMAT in
opt_modulefiles_slurm.in.
-- Enable compiling without optimizations and with debugging symbols by
default. Disable this by configuring with --disable-debug.
-- job_submit/lua plugin: Add mail_type and mail_user fields.
-- Use standard statvfs(2) syscall if available, in preference to
non-standard statfs.
-- Add a new option -U/--Users to sshare to display only users
information, parent and ancestors are not printed.
-- Purge 50000 records at a time so that locks can released periodically.
-- Fix potentially uninitialized variables
-- ALPS - Fix issue where a frontend node could become unresponsive and never
added back into the system.
-- Gate epilog complete messages as done with other messages
-- If we have more than a certain number of agents (50) wait longer when gating
rpcs.
-- FrontEnd - ping non-responding or down nodes.
-- switch/cray: If CR_PACK_NODES is configured, then set the environment
variable "PMI_CRAY_NO_SMP_ENV=1"
-- Fix invalid memory reference in SlurmDBD when putting a node up.
-- Allow opening of plugstack.conf even when a symlink.
-- Fix scontrol reboot so that rebooted nodes will not be set down with reason
'Node xyz unexpectedly rebooted' but will be correctly put back to service.
-- CRAY - Throttle the post NHC operations as to not hog the job write lock
if many steps/jobs finish at once.
-- Disable changes to GRES count while jobs are running on the node.
-- CRAY - Fix issue with scontrol reconfig.
-- slurmd: Remove wrong reporting of "Error reading step ... memory limit".
The logic was treating success as an error.
-- Eliminate "Node ping apparently hung" error messages.
-- Fix average CPU frequency calculation.
-- When allocating resources with resolution of sockets, charge the job for all
CPUs on allocated sockets rather than just the CPUs on used cores.
-- Prevent slurmdbd error if cluster added or removed while rollup in progress.
Removing a cluster can cause slurmdbd to abort. Adding a cluster can cause
the slurmdbd rollup to hang.
-- sview - When right clicking on a tab make sure we don't display the page
list, but only the column list.
-- FRONTEND - If doing a clean start make sure the nodes are brought up in the
database.
-- MySQL - Fix issue when using the TrackSlurmctldDown and nodes are down at
the same time, don't double bill the down time.
-- MySQL - Various memory leak fixes.
-- Fix node manager logic to keep unexpectedly rebooted node in state
NODE_STATE_DOWN even if already down when rebooted.
-- Fix for array jobs submitted to multiple partitions not starting.
-- CRAY - Enable ALPs mpp compatibility code in sbatch for native Slurm.
-- ALPS - Move basil_inventory to less confusing function.
-- Add SchedulerParameters option of "sched_max_job_start=" to limit the
number of jobs that can be started in any single execution of the main
scheduling logic.
-- Fixed compiler warnings generated by gcc version >= 4.6.
-- sbatch to stop parsing script for "#SBATCH" directives after first command,
which matches the documentation.
-- Overwrite the SLURM_JOB_NAME in sbatch if already exist in the environment
and use the one specified on the command line --job-name.
-- Remove xmalloc_nz from unpack functions. If the unpack ever failed the
free afterwards would not have zeroed out memory on the variables that
didn't get unpacked.
-- Improve database interaction from controller.
-- Fix for data shift when loading job archives.
-- ALPS - Added new SchedulerParameters=inventory_interval to specify how
often an inventory request is handled.
-- ALPS - Don't run a release on a reservation on the slurmctld for a batch
job. This is already handled on the stepd when the script finishes.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.5
==========================
-- Correct the squeue command taking into account that a node can
have NULL name if it is not in DNS but still in slurm.conf.
-- Fix slurmdbd regression which would cause a segfault when a node is set
down with no reason.
-- BGQ - Fix issue with job arrays not being handled correctly
in the runjob_mux plugin.
-- Print FAIR_TREE, if configured, in "scontrol show config" output for
PriorityFlags.
-- Add SLURM_JOB_GPUS environment variable to those available in the Prolog.
-- Load lua-5.2 library if using lua5.2 for lua job submit plugin.
-- GRES logic: Prevent bad node_offset due to not preserving no_consume flag.
-- Fix wrong variables used in the wrapper functions needed for systems that
don't support strong_alias
-- Fix code for apple computers SOL_TCP is not defined
-- Cray/BASIL - Check for mysql credentials in /root/.my.cnf.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix sprio showing wrong priority for job arrays until priority is
recalculated.
-- Account to batch step all CPUs that are allocated to a job not
just one since the batch step has access to all CPUs like other steps.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix job getting EligibleTime set before meeting dependency requirements.
-- Correct the initialization of QOS MinCPUs per job limit.
-- Set the debug level of information messages in cgroup plugin to debug2.
-- For job running under a debugger, if the exec of the task fails, then
cancel its I/O and abort immediately rather than waiting 60 seconds for
I/O timeout.
-- Fix associations not getting default qos set until after a restart.
-- Set the value of total_cpus not to be zero before invoking
acct_policy_job_runnable_post_select.
-- MySQL - When requesting cluster resources, only return resources for the
cluster(s) requested.
-- Add TaskPluginParam=autobind=threads option to set a default binding in the
case that "auto binding" doesn't find a match.
-- Introduce a new SchedulerParameters variable nohold_on_prolog_fail.
If configured don't requeue jobs on hold is a Prolog fails.
-- Make it so sched_params isn't read over and over when an epilog complete
message comes in
-- Fix squeue -L <licenses> not filtering out jobs with licenses.
-- Changed the implementation of xcpuinfo_abs_to_mac() be identical
_abs_to_mac() to fix CPUs allocation using cpuset cgroup.
-- Improve the explanation of the unbuffered feature in the
srun man page.
-- Make taskplugin=cgroup work for core spec. needed to have task/cgroup
before.
-- Fix reports not using the month usage table.
-- BGQ - Sanity check given for translating small blocks into slurm bg_records.
-- Fix bug preventing the requeue/hold or requeue/special_exit of job from the
completing state.
-- Cray - Fix for launching batch step within an existing job allocation.
-- Cray - Add ALPS_APP_ID_ENV environment variable.
-- Increase maximum MaxArraySize configuration parameter value from 1,000,001
to 4,000,001.
-- Added new SchedulerParameters value of bf_min_age_reserve. The backfill
scheduler will not reserve resources for pending jobs until they have
been pending for at least the specified number of seconds. This can be
valuable if jobs lack time limits or all time limits have the same value.
-- Fix support for --mem=0 (all memory of a node) with select/cons_res plugin.
-- Fix bug that can permit someone to kill job array belonging to another user.
-- Don't set the default partition on a license only reservation.
-- Show a NodeCnt=0, instead of NO_VAL, in "scontrol show res" for a license
only reservation.
-- BGQ - When using static small blocks make sure when clearing the job the
block is set up to it's original state.
-- Start job allocation using lowest numbered sockets for block task
distribution for consistency with cyclic distribution.
* Changes in Slurm 14.11.4
==========================
-- Make sure assoc_mgr locks are initialized correctly.
-- Correct check of enforcement when filling in an association.
-- Make sacctmgr print out classification correctly for clusters.
-- Add array_task_str to the perlapi job info.
-- Fix for slurmctld abort with GRES types configured and no CPU binding.
-- Fix for GRES scheduling where count > 1 per topology type (or GRES types).
-- Make CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE work correctly with task/affinity.
-- job_submit/pbs - Fix possible deadlock.
-- job_submit/lua - Add "alloc_node" to job information available.
-- Fix memory leak in mysql accounting when usage rollup happens.
-- If users specify ALL together with other variables using the
--export sbatch/srun command line option, propagate the users'
environ to the execution side.
-- Fix job array scheduling anomaly that can stop scheduling of valid tasks.
-- Fix perl api tests for libslurmdb to work correctly.
-- Remove some misleading logs related to non-consumable GRES.
-- Allow --ignore-pbs to take effect when read as an #SBATCH argument.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix Slurmdb::clusters_get() in perl api from not returning information.
-- Fix TaskPluginParam=Cpusets from logging error message about not being able
to remove cpuset dir which was already removed by the release_agent.
-- Fix the file name substitution for job stderr when %A, %a %j and %u
are specified.
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