diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES_LLNL b/RELEASE_NOTES_LLNL index 60bf07aec341a97ab0f9d7d4f1c985629127d561..1592ccb7a8c00055b7d8977c613b278857c11d15 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES_LLNL +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES_LLNL @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ LLNL-SPECIFIC RELEASE NOTES FOR SLURM VERSION 2.0 For processor-scheduled clusters (*not* allocating whole nodes to jobs): Set "DefMemPerCPU" and "MaxMemPerCPU" as appropriate to restrict memory available to a job. Also set "JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/linux" -for enforcement (periodic sampling of memory use by the job). +for enforcement (periodic sampling of memory use by the job). You can change +said sampling rate from the default (every 30 seconds) by setting the +"JobAcctGatherFrequency" option to a different number of seconds in +the slurm.conf. Configure "TaskPlugin=task/affinity" and remove the "auto-affinity.so" SPANK plugin with equivalent functionality. @@ -15,7 +18,8 @@ directly in SLURM. SLURM version 2.0 must use a database daemon (slurmdbd) at version 2.0 or higher. While we are testing version 2.0, set "AccountingStoragePort=????". Once we upgrade the production slurmdbd to version 2.0, this change will -not be required. +not be required. You can like wise test 1.3.7+ clusters with the same port +as the 2.0 slurmdbd will also talk to 1.3.7+ slurm. SLURM state files in version 2.0 are different from those of version 1.3. After installing SLURM version 2.0, plan to restart without preserving