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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 admins.
* Changes in SLURM 2.4.5
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-- Cray - On job kill requeust, send SIGCONT, SIGTERM, wait KillWait and send
SIGKILL. Previously just sent SIGKILL to tasks.
-- BGQ - Fix issue when running srun outside of an allocation and only
specifying the number of tasks and not the number of nodes.
-- BGQ - validate correct ntasks_per_node
-- BGQ - when srun -Q is given make runjob be quiet
Morris Jette
committed
-- Modify use of OOM (out of memory protection) for Linux 2.6.36 kernel
or later. NOTE: If you were setting the environment variable
SLURMSTEPD_OOM_ADJ=-17, it should be set to -1000 for Linux 2.6.36 kernel
or later.
-- BGQ - Fix job step timeout actually happen when done from within an
allocation.
-- Reset node MAINT state flag when a reservation's nodes or flags change.
* Changes in SLURM 2.4.4
========================
-- BGQ - minor fix to make build work in emulated mode.
-- BGQ - Fix if large block goes into error and the next highest priority jobs
are planning on using the block. Previously it would fail those jobs
erroneously.
-- BGQ - Fix issue when a cnode going to an error (not SoftwareError) state
with a job running or trying to run on it.
-- Execute slurm_spank_job_epilog when there is no system Epilog configured.
-- Fix for srun --test-only to work correctly with timelimits
-- BGQ - If a job goes away while still trying to free it up in the
database, and the job is running on a small block make sure we free up
the correct node count.
-- BGQ - Logic added to make sure a job has finished on a block before it is
purged from the system if its front-end node goes down.
-- Modify strigger so that a filter option of "--user=0" is supported.
-- Correct --mem-per-cpu logic for core or socket allocations with multiple
threads per core.
-- Fix for older < glibc 2.4 systems to use euidaccess() instead of eaccess().
-- BLUEGENE - Do not alter a pending job's node count when changing it's
partition.
-- BGQ - Add functionality to make it so we track the actions on a block.
This is needed for when a free request is added to a block but there are
jobs finishing up so we don't start new jobs on the block since they will
fail on start.
-- BGQ - Fixed InactiveLimit to work correctly to avoid scenarios where a
user's pending allocation was started with srun and then for some reason
the slurmctld was brought down and while it was down the srun was removed.
-- Fixed InactiveLimit math to work correctly
-- BGQ - Add logic to make it so blocks can't use a midplane with a nodeboard
in error for passthrough.
-- BGQ - Make it so if a nodeboard goes in error any block using that midplane
for passthrough gets removed on a dynamic system.
-- BGQ - Fix for printing realtime server debug correctly.
-- BGQ - Cleaner handling of cnode failures when reported through the runjob
interface instead of through the normal method.
-- smap - spread node information across multiple lines for larger systems.
-- Cray - Defer salloc until after PrologSlurmctld completes.
-- Correction to slurmdbd communications failure handling logic, incorrect
error codes returned in some cases.
* Changes in SLURM 2.4.3
========================
-- Accounting - Fix so complete 32 bit numbers can be put in for a priority.
-- cgroups - fix if initial directory is non-existent SLURM creates it
correctly. Before the errno wasn't being checked correctly
-- BGQ - fixed srun when only requesting a task count and not a node count
to operate the same way salloc or sbatch did and assign a task per cpu
by default instead of task per node.
-- Fix salloc --gid to work correctly. Reported by Brian Gilmer
-- BGQ - fix smap to set the correct default MloaderImage
-- Close the batch job's environment file when it contains no data to avoid
leaking file descriptors.
-- Fix sbcast's credential to last till the end of a job instead of the
previous 20 minute time limit. The previous behavior would fail for
large files 20 minutes into the transfer.
-- Return ESLURM_NODES_BUSY rather than ESLURM_NODE_NOT_AVAIL error on job
submit when required nodes are up, but completing a job or in exclusive
job allocation.
-- Add HWLOC_FLAGS so linking to libslurm works correctly
-- BGQ - If using backfill and a shared block is running at least one job
and a job comes through backfill and can fit on the block without ending
jobs don't set an end_time for the running jobs since they don't need to
end to start the job.
-- Initialize bind_verbose when using task/cgroup.
-- BGQ - Fix for handling backfill much better when sharing blocks.
-- BGQ - Fix for making small blocks on first pass if not sharing blocks.
-- BLUEGENE - Remove force of default conn_type instead of leaving NAV
when none are requested. The Block allocator sets it up temporarily so
this isn't needed.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix deadlock issue when dealing with bad hardware if using
static blocks.
-- Fix to mysql plugin during rollup to only query suspended table when jobs
reported some suspended time.
-- Fix compile with glibc 2.16 (Kacper Kowalik)
-- BGQ - fix for deadlock where a block has error on it and all jobs
running on it are preemptable by scheduling job.
-- proctrack/cgroup: Exclude internal threads from "scontrol list pids".
Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- Memory leak fixed for select/linear when preempting jobs.
-- Fix if updating begin time of a job to update the eligible time in
accounting as well.
-- BGQ - make it so you can signal steps when signaling the job allocation.
-- BGQ - Remove extra overhead if a large block has many cnode failures.
-- Priority/Multifactor - Fix issue with age factor when a job is estimated to
start in the future but is able to run now.
-- CRAY - update to work with ALPS 5.1
-- BGQ - Handle issue of speed and mutexes when polling instead of using the
realtime server.
-- BGQ - Fix minor sorting issue with sview when sorting by midplanes.
-- Accounting - Fix for handling per user max node/cpus limits on a QOS
correctly for current job.
-- Update documentation for -/+= when updating a reservation's
users/accounts/flags
-- Update pam module to work if using aliases on nodes instead of actual
host names.
-- Correction to task layout logic in select/cons_res for job with minimum
and maximum node count.
-- BGQ - Put final poll after realtime comes back into service to avoid
having the realtime server go down over and over again while waiting
for the poll to finish.
-- task/cgroup/memory - ensure that ConstrainSwapSpace=no is correctly
handled. Work by Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- CRAY - Fix for sacct -N option to work correctly
-- CRAY - Update documentation to describe installation from rpm instead
or previous piecemeal method.
-- Fix sacct to work with QOS' that have previously been deleted.
-- Added all available limits to the output of sacctmgr list qos
* Changes in SLURM 2.4.2
========================
-- BLUEGENE - Correct potential deadlock issue when hardware goes bad and
there are jobs running on that hardware.
-- If job is submitted to more than one partition, it's partition pointer can
be set to an invalid value. This can result in the count of CPUs allocated
on a node being bad, resulting in over- or under-allocation of its CPUs.
Patch by Carles Fenoy, BSC.
-- Fix bug in task layout with select/cons_res plugin and --ntasks-per-node
option. Patch by Martin Perry, Bull.
-- BLUEGENE - remove race condition where if a block is removed while waiting
for a job to finish on it the number of unused cpus wasn't updated
correctly.
-- BGQ - make sure we have a valid block when creating or finishing a step
allocation.
-- BLUEGENE - If a large block (> 1 midplane) is in error and underlying
hardware is marked bad remove the larger block and create a block over
just the bad hardware making the other hardware available to run on.
-- BLUEGENE - Handle job completion correctly if an admin removes a block
where other blocks on an overlapping midplane are running jobs.
-- BLUEGENE - correctly remove running jobs when freeing a block.
-- BGQ - correct logic to place multiple (< 1 midplane) steps inside a
multi midplane block allocation.
-- BGQ - Make it possible for a multi midplane allocation to run on more
than 1 midplane but not the entire allocation.
-- BGL - Fix for syncing users on block from Tim Wickberg
-- Fix initialization of protocol_version for some messages to make sure it
is always set when sending or receiving a message.
Alejandro Lucero Palau
committed
-- Reset backfilled job counter only when explicitly cleared using scontrol.
Patch from Alejandro Lucero Palau, BSC.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling blocks when a larger block will not free and
while it is attempting to free underlying hardware is marked in error
making small blocks overlapping with the freeing block. This only
applies to dynamic layout mode.
-- Cray and BlueGene - Do not treat lack of usable front-end nodes when
slurmctld deamon starts as a fatal error. Also preserve correct front-end
node for jobs when there is more than one front-end node and the slurmctld
daemon restarts.
Morris Jette
committed
-- Correct parsing of srun/sbatch input/output/error file names so that only
the name "none" is mapped to /dev/null and not any file name starting
with "none" (e.g. "none.o").
-- BGQ - added version string to the load of the runjob_mux plugin to verify
the current plugin has been loaded when using runjob_mux_refresh_config
-- CGROUPS - Use system mount/umount function calls instead of doing fork
exec of mount/umount from Janne Blomqvist.
-- BLUEGENE - correct start time setup when no jobs are blocking the way
from Mark Nelson
-- Fixed sacct --state=S query to return information about suspended jobs
current or in the past.
-- FRONTEND - Made error warning more apparent if a frontend node isn't
configured correctly.
-- BGQ - update documentation about runjob_mux_refresh_config which works
correctly as of IBM driver V1R1M1 efix 008.
* Changes in SLURM 2.4.1
========================
-- Fix bug for job state change from 2.3 -> 2.4 job state can now be preserved
correctly when transitioning. This also applies for 2.4.0 -> 2.4.1, no
state will be lost. (Thanks to Carles Fenoy)
-- Cray - Improve support for zero compute note resource allocations.
Partition used can now be configured with no nodes nodes.
-- BGQ - make it so srun -i<taskid> works correctly.
-- Fix parse_uint32/16 to complain if a non-digit is given.
-- Add SUBMITHOST to job state passed to Moab vial sched/wiki2. Patch by Jon
Bringhurst (LANL).
-- BGQ - Fix issue when running with AllowSubBlockAllocations=Yes without
compiling with --enable-debug
-- Modify scontrol to require "-dd" option to report batch job's script. Patch
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