bug 3447

Turns out if the extern step is created here and the job was killed long
before hand the step is made erroneously and can cause an assert just lines
later.

Bug 3898

specify an alternative --ntasks-per-*

set correctly.

Bug 3858

on HTC systems finishing many jobs at the same time.

See bug 3725

Changes the alpsc_configure_nic() call to set the exclusive flag,
and 100 for both the cpu and memory scaling values.

Should only be used with exclusive jobs without concurrent steps
running on a node, otherwise oversubscription of the GNI resources
can occur leading to performance issues.

Bug 3713.

the slurm.conf file.

What this does is populate the node_hash_table as nodes are being read in
instead of after the node_record_table_ptr has been fully populated.

This speeds up a start of a slurmd with a system of 10000 nodes from
> 1 minute to less than a second.

In 17.11 we will remove the linear xstrcmp check as it should no longer be
needed.

Bug 3885

code change.

Bug 3885

Bug 3888

of a hard coded value.

This probably needs to be something higher to accommodate potential systems
with with oversubscribe given.

See bug 3833

batch job takes longer than it takes to finish.

Bug 3833

time.

Bug 3833

srun just added it as well.

Bug 3880.

salloc and sbatch will add this, but do not support than long option.

Bug 3880.

An array was only being partially cleared due to bad logic
bug 3876

Bug 3874.

Improve selection of jobs to preempt when there are multiple partitions
    with jobs subject to preemption.
bug 3824

Prevent segfault from pointer dereference to the QOS that is
being deleted.

Fix to commit 3e8aa451.

When not using a nodefeatureplugin the new feature string should just be
duplicated and returned.

Continuation of 6690685a

Usage changed

For some reason the free of resv_name and resv_ports was removed
  from master

When a federated cluster reads job state it should only restore the
job_id_sequence from jobs that originated from it and not from remote
clusters.