Commit 54b63642 authored by Rod Schultz's avatar Rod Schultz Committed by Morris Jette
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Document enforcement of job's --mem option

I'd like to add the following disclaimer to the documentation of the --mem option to the salloc/sbatch/srun commands. There is currently similar wording in the slurm.conf file, but I've received a bug report in which the memory limits were exceeded (until the next accounting poll).

NOTE: Enforcement of memory limits currently requires enabling of accounting,
which samples memory use on a periodic basis (data need not be stored,  just  collected).
A task may exceed the memory limit until the next periodic accounting sample.

Rod Schultz, Bull
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