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guides:slurm:tips [30.04.2020 10:40] Juha Kekäläinen |
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With SLURM for your own sake it is important not to overallocate the resources while pending time slot for the computing job. If you overallocate then your job will be pending for resources for a long time. | With SLURM for your own sake it is important not to overallocate the resources while pending time slot for the computing job. If you overallocate then your job will be pending for resources for a long time. | ||
- | For example if you request 50 GB of RAM for you computing job while it actually uses 5 GB. Then the job will wait for computing slot for 50 GB of job and this could mean that you will wait computing time for multiple days. Or if you running parallel | + | For example if you request 50 GB of RAM for you computing job while it actually uses 5 GB. Then the job will wait for computing slot for 50 GB of job and this could mean that you will wait computing time for multiple days. Or if you are running |
- | Other users will suffer while they are waiting for computing resources that are reserved for no reason. | + | Other users also will suffer while they are waiting for computing resources that are reserved for no reason. |
## Use local SSD of the computing node | ## Use local SSD of the computing node | ||
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You should also check the Slurm job efficiency report for the completed jobs. This way you will find out how much was your CPU, memory and wall time usage. With these informations you can fine tune your jobs and not overallocate the computing cluster. | You should also check the Slurm job efficiency report for the completed jobs. This way you will find out how much was your CPU, memory and wall time usage. With these informations you can fine tune your jobs and not overallocate the computing cluster. | ||
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+ | ``` | ||
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+ | seff JOBID | ||
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+ | Job ID: JOBID | ||
+ | Array Job ID: JOBID_408 | ||
+ | Cluster: bic | ||
+ | User/Group: user/domain users | ||
+ | State: COMPLETED (exit code 0) | ||
+ | Cores: 1 | ||
+ | CPU Utilized: 01:31:27 | ||
+ | CPU Efficiency: 166.17% of 00:55:02 core-walltime | ||
+ | Job Wall-clock time: 00:55:02 | ||
+ | Memory Utilized: 10.26 GB | ||
+ | Memory Efficiency: 16.42% of 62.50 GB | ||
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+ | ``` | ||