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 2.3.0.pre1 ============================= -- Added that when a slurmctld closes the connection to the database it's registered host and port are removed. -- Added flag to slurmdbd.conf TrackSlurmctldDown where if set will mark idle resources as down on a cluster when a slurmctld disconnects or is no longer reachable. -- Added support for more than one front-end node to run slurmd on architectures where the slurmd does not execute on the compute nodes (e.g. BlueGene). New configuration paramters FrontendNode and FrontendAddr added. See "man slurm.conf" for more information. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.1 ======================== -- Fix setting derived exit code correctly for jobs that happen to have the same jobid. -- Better checking for time overflow when rolling up in accounting. -- Add scancel --reservation option to cancell all jobs associated with a specific reservation. -- Treat reservation with no nodes like one that starts later (let jobs of any size get queued). -- Fix bug in gang scheduling logic that would temporarily resume to many jobs after a job completed. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0 ======================== -- Change format of Duration field in "scontrol show reservation" output from an integer number of minutes to "[days-]hours:minutes:seconds". -- Add support for changing the reservation of pending or running jobs. -- On Cray systems only, salloc sends SIGKILL to spawned process group when job allocation is revoked. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Fix for sacctmgr to work correctly when modifying user associations where all the associations contain a partition. -- Minor mods to salloc signal handling logic: forwards more signals and releases allocation on real-time signals. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Add salloc logic to preserve tty attributes after abnormal exit. Patch from Mark Grondona, LLNL. -- BLUEGENE - Fix for issue in dynamic mode when trying to create a block overlapping a block with no job running on it but in configuring state. -- BLUEGENE - Speedup by skipping blocks that are deallocating for other jobs when starting overlapping jobs in dynamic mode. -- Fix for sacct --state to work correctly when not specifying a start time. -- Fix upgrade process in accounting from 2.1 for clusters named "cluster". -- Export more jobacct_common symbols needed for the slurm api on some systems. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc4 ============================ -- Correction in logic to spread out over time highly parallel messages to minimize lost messages. Effects slurmd epilog complete messages and PMI key-pair transmissions. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Fixed issue where if a system has unset messages to the dbd in 2.1 and upgrades to 2.2. Messages are now processed correctly now. -- Fixed issue where assoc_mgr cache wasn't always loaded correctly if the slurmdbd wasn't running when the slurmctld was started. -- Make sure on a pthread create in step launch that the error code is looked at. Improves fault-tolerance of slurmd. -- Fix setting up default acct/wckey when upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2. -- Fix issue with associations attached to a specific partition with no other association, and requesting a different partition. -- Added perlapi to the slurmdb to the slurm.spec. -- In sched/backfill, correct handling of CompleteWait parameter to avoid backfill scheduling while a job is completing. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Send message back to user when trying to launch job on computing lacking that user ID. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- BLUEGENE - Fix it so 1 midplane clusters will run small block jobs. -- Add Command and WorkDir to the output of "scontrol show job" for job allocations created using srun (not just sbatch). -- Fixed sacctmgr to not add blank defaultqos' when doing a cluster dump. -- Correct processing of memory and disk space specifications in the salloc, sbatch, and srun commands to work properly with a suffix of "MB", "GB", etc. and not only with a single letter (e.g. "M", "G", etc.). -- Prevent nodes with suspended jobs from being powered down by SLURM. -- Normalized the way pidfile are created by the slurm daemons. -- Fixed modifying the root association to no read in it's last value when clearing a limit being set. -- Revert some resent signal handling logic from salloc so that SIGHUP sent after the job allocation will properly release the allocation and cause salloc to exit. -- BLUEGENE - Fix for recreating a block in a ready state. -- Fix debug flags for incorrect logic when dealing with DEBUG_FLAG_WIKI. -- Report reservation's Nodes as a hostlist expression of all nodes rather than using "ALL". -- Fix reporting of nodes in BlueGene reservation (was reporting CPU count rather than cnode count in scontrol output for NodeCnt field). * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc3 ============================ -- Modify sacctmgr command to accept plural versions of options (e.g. "Users" in addition to "User"). Patch from Don Albert, BULL. -- BLUEGENE - make it so reset of boot counter happens only on state change and not when a new job comes along. -- Modify srun and salloc signal handling so they can be interrupted while waiting for an allocation. This was broken in version 2.2.0.rc2. -- Fix NULL pointer reference in sview. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Fix file descriptor leak in slurmstepd on spank_task_post_fork() failure. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Fix bug in preserving job state information when upgrading from SLURM version 2.1. Bug introduced in version 2.2.0-pre10. Patch from Par Andersson, NSC. -- Fix bug where if using the slurmdbd if a job wasn't able to start right away some accounting information may be lost. -- BLUEGENE - when a prolog failure happens the offending block is put in an error state. -- Changed the last column heading of the sshare output from "FS Usage" to "FairShare" and added more detail to the sshare man page. -- Fix bug in enforcement of reservation by account name. Used wrong index into an array. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS. -- Modify job_submit/lua plugin to treat any non-zero return code from the job_submit and job_modify functions as an error and the user request should be aborted. -- Fix bug which would permit pending job to be started on completing node when job preemption is configured. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc2 ============================ -- Fix memory leak in job step allocation logic. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- If a preempted job was submitted with the --no-requeue option then cancel rather than requeue it. -- Fix for problems when adding a user for the first time to a new cluster with a 2.1 sacctmgr without specifying a default account. -- Resend TERMINATE_JOB message only to nodes that the job still has not terminated on. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- Treat time limit specification of "0:300" as a request for 300 seconds (5 minutes) instead of one minute. -- Modify sched/backfill plugin logic to continue working its way down the queue of jobs rather than restarting at the top if there are no changes in job, node, or partition state between runs. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- Improve scalability of select/cons_res logic. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA. -- Fix for possible deadlock in the slurmstepd when cancelling a job that is also writing a large amount of data to stderr. -- Fix in select/cons_res to eliminate "mem underflow" error when the slurmctld is reconfigured while a job is in completing state. -- Send a message to the a user's job when it's real or virual memory limit is exceeded. : -- Apply rlimits right before execing the users task so to lower the risk of the task exiting because the slurmstepd ran over a limit (log file size, etc.) -- Add scontrol command of "uhold " so that an administrator can hold a job and let the job's owner release it. The scontrol command of "hold " when executed by a SLURM administrator can only be released by a SLURM administrator and not the job owner. -- Change atoi to slurm_atoul in mysql plugin, needed for running on 32-bit systems in some cases. -- If a batch job is found to be missing from a node, make its termination state be NODE_FAIL rather than CANCELLED. -- Fatal error put back if running a bluegene or cray plugin from a controller not of that type. -- Make sure jobacct_gather plugin is not shutdown before messing with the proccess list. -- Modify signal handling in srun and salloc commands to avoid deadlock if the malloc function is interupted and called again. The malloc function is thread safe, but not reentrant, which is a problem when signal handling if the malloc function itself has a lock. Problem fixed by moving signal handling in those commands to a new pthread. -- In srun set job abort flag on completion to handle the case when a user cancels a job while the node is not responding but slurmctld has not yet the node down. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- Streamline the PMI logic if no duplicate keys are included in the key-pairs managed. Substantially improves performance for large numbers of tasks. Adds support for SLURM_PMI_KVS_NO_DUP_KEYS environment variable. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- Fix issues with sview dealing with older versions of sview and saving defaults. -- Remove references to --mincores, --minsockets, and --minthreads from the salloc, sbatch and srun man pages. These options are defunct, Patch from Rod Schultz, Bull. -- Made openssl not be required to build RPMs, it is not required anymore since munge is the default crypto plugin. -- sacctmgr now has smarts to figure out if a qos is a default qos when modifing a user/acct or removing a qos. -- For reservations on BlueGene systems, set and report c-node counts rather than midplane counts. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc1 ============================ -- Add show_flags parameter to the slurm_load_block_info() function. -- perlapi has been brought up to speed courtesy of Hongjia Coa. (make sure to run 'make clean' if building in a different dir than source) -- Fixed regression in pre12 in crypto/munge when running with --enable-multiple-slurmd which would cause the slurmd's to core. -- Fixed regression where cpu count wasn't figured out correctly for steps. -- Fixed issue when using old mysql that can't handle a '.' in the table name. -- Mysql plugin works correctly without the SlurmDBD -- Added ability to query batch step with sstat. Currently no accounting data is stored for the batch step, but the internals are inplace if we decide to do that in the future. -- Fixed some backwards compatibility issues with 2.2 talking to 2.1. -- Fixed regression where modifying associations didn't get sent to the slurmctld. -- Made sshare sort things the same way saccmgr list assoc does (alphabetically) -- Fixed issue with default accounts being set up correctly. -- Changed sortting in the slurmctld so sshare output is similar to that of sacctmgr list assoc. -- Modify reservation logic so that daily and weekly reservations maintain the same time when daylight savings time starts or ends in the interim. -- Edit to make reservations handle updates to associations. -- Added the derived exit code to the slurmctld job record and the derived exit code and string to the job record in the SLURM db. -- Added slurm-sjobexit RPM for SLURM job exit code management tools. -- Added ability to use sstat/sacct against the batch step. -- Added OnlyDefaults option to sacctmgr list associations. -- Modified the fairshare priority formula to F = 2**(-Ue/S) -- Modify the PMI functions key-pair exchange function to support a 32-bit counter for larger job sizes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- In sched/builtin - Make the estimated job start time logic faster (borrowed new logic from sched/backfill and added pthread) and more accurate. -- In select/cons_res fix bug that could result in a job being allocated zero CPUs on some nodes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT. -- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set expected start time of a job too far in the future. -- Added ability to enforce new limits given to associations/qos on pending jobs. -- Increase max message size for the slurmdbd from 1000000 to 16*1024*1024 -- Increase number of active threads in the slurmdbd from 50 to 100 -- Fixed small bug in src/common/slurmdb_defs.c reported by Bjorn-Helge Mevik -- Fixed sacctmgr's ability to query associations against qos again. -- Fixed sview show config on non-bluegene systems. -- Fixed bug in selecting jobs based on sacct -N option -- Fix bug that prevented job Epilog from running more than once on a node if a job was requeued and started no job steps. -- Fixed issue where node index wasn't stored correcting when using DBD. -- Enable srun's use of the --nodes option with --exclusive (previously the --nodes option was ignored). -- Added UsageThreshold and Flags to the QOS object. -- Patch to improve threadsafeness in the mysql plugins. -- Add support for fair-share scheduling to be based upon resource use at the level of bank accounts and ignore use of individual users. Patch by Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre12 ============================== -- Log if Prolog or Epilog run for longer than MessageTimeout / 2. -- Log the RPC number associated with messages from slurmctld that timeout. -- Fix bug in select/cons_res logic when job allocation includes --overcommit and --ntasks-per-node options and the node has fewer CPUs than the count specified by --ntasks-per-node. -- Fix bug in gang scheduling and job preemption logic so that preempted jobs get resumed properly after a slurmctld hot-start. -- Fix bug in select/linear handling of gang scheduled jobs that could result in run_job_cnt underflow error message. -- Fix bug in gang scheduling logic to properly support partitions added using the scontrol command. -- Fix a segmentation fault in sview where the 'excluded_partitions' field was set to NULL, caused by the absence of ~/.slurm/sviewrc. -- Rewrote some calls to is_user_any_coord() in src/plugins/accounting_storage modules to make use of is_user_any_coord()'s return value. -- Add configure option of --with=dimensions=#. -- Modify srun ping logic so that srun would only be considered not responsive if three ping messages were not responded to. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT). -- Preserve a node's ReasonTime field after scontrol reconfig command. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT). -- Added the authority for users with AdminLevel's defined in the SLURM db (Operators and Admins) and account coordinators to invoke commands that affect jobs, reservations, nodes, etc. -- Fix for slurmd restart on completing node with no tasks to get the correct state, completing. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT). -- Prevent scontrol setting a node's Reason="". Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT). -- Add new functions hostlist_ranged_string_malloc, hostlist_ranged_string_xmalloc, hostlist_deranged_string_malloc, and hostlist_deranged_string_xmalloc which will allocate memory as needed. -- Make the slurm commands support both the --cluster and --clusters option. Previously, some commands support one of those options, but not the other. -- Fix bug when resizing a job that has steps running on some of those nodes. Avoid killing the job step on remaining nodes. Patch from Rod Schultz (BULL). Also fix bug related to tracking the CPUs allocated to job steps on each node after releasing some nodes from the job's allocation. -- Applied patch from Rod Schultz / Matthieu Hautreux to keep the Node-to-Host cache from becoming corrupted when a hostname cannot be resolved. -- Export more symbols in libslurm for job and node state information translation (numbers to strings). Patch from Hongia Cao, NUDT. -- Add logic to retry sending RESPONSE_LAUNCH_TASKS messages from slurmd to srun. Patch from Hongia Cao, NUDT. -- Modify bit_unfmt_hexmask() and bit_unfmt_binmask() functions to clear the bitmap input before setting the bits indicated in the input string. -- Add SchedulerParameters option of bf_window to control how far into the future that the backfill scheduler will look when considering jobs to start. The default value is one day. See "man slurm.conf" for details. -- Fix bug that can result in duplicate job termination records in accounting for job termination when slurmctld restarts or reconfigures. -- Modify plugin and library logic as needed to support use of the function slurm_job_step_stat() from user commands. -- Fix race condition in which PrologSlurmctld failure could cause slurmctld to abort. -- Fix bug preventing users in secondary user groups from being granted access to partitions configured with AllowGroups. -- Added support for a default account and wckey per cluster within accounting. -- Modified select/cons_res plugin so that if MaxMemPerCPU is configured and a job specifies it's memory requirement, then more CPUs than requested will automatically be allocated to a job to honor the MaxMemPerCPU parameter. -- Added the derived_ec (exit_code) member to job_info_t. exit_code captures the exit code of the job script (or salloc) while derived_ec contains the highest exit code of all the job steps. -- Added SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE and SLURM_JOB_DERIVED_EC variables to the EpilogSlurmctld environment -- More work done on the accounting_storage/pgsql plugin, still beta. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT). -- Major updates to sview from Dan Rusak (Bull), including: - Persistent option selections for each tab page - Clean up topology in grids - Leverage AllowGroups and Hidden options - Cascade full-info popups for ease of selection -- Add locks around the MySQL calls for proper operation if the non-thread safe version of the MySQL library is used. -- Remove libslurm.a, libpmi.a and libslurmdb.a from SLURM RPM. These static libraries are not generally usable. -- Fixed bug in sacctmgr when zeroing raw usage reported by Gerrit Renker. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre11 ============================== -- Permit a regular user to change the partition of a pending job. -- Major re-write of the job_submit/lua plugin to pass pointers to available partitions and use lua metatables to reference the job and partition fields. -- Add support for serveral new trigger types: SlurmDBD failure/restart, Database failure/restart, Slurmctld failure/restart. -- Add support for SLURM_CLUSTERS environment variable in the sbatch, sinfo, squeue commands. -- Modify the sinfo and squeue commands to report state of multiple clusters if the --clusters option is used. -- Added printf __attribute__ qualifiers to info, debug, ... to help prevent bad/incorrect parameters being sent to them. Original patch from Eygene Ryabinkin (Russian Research Centre). -- Fix bug in slurmctld job completion logic when nodes allocated to a completing job are re-booted. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT). -- In slurmctld's node record data structure, rename "hilbert_integer" to "node_rank". -- Add topology/node_rank plugin to sort nodes based upon rank loaded from BASIL on Cray computers. -- Fix memory leak in the auth/munge and crypto/munge plugins in the case of some failure modes. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre10 ============================== -- Fix issue when EnforcePartLimits=yes in slurm.conf all jobs where no nodecnt was specified the job would be seen to have maxnodes=0 which would not allow jobs to run. -- Fix issue where if not suspending a job the gang scheduler does the correct kill procedure. -- Fixed some issues when dealing with jobs from a 2.1 system so they live after an upgrade. -- In srun, log if --cpu_bind options are specified, but not supported by the current system configuration. -- Various Patchs from Hongjia Cao dealing with bugs found in sacctmgr and the slurmdbd. -- Fix bug in changing the nodes allocated to a running job and some node names specified are invalid, avoid invalid memory reference. -- Fixed filename substitution of %h and %n based on patch from Ralph Bean -- Added better job sorting logic when preempting jobs with qos. -- Log the IP address and port number for some communication errors. -- Fix bug in select/cons_res when --cpus_per_task option is used, could oversubscribe resources. -- In srun, do not implicitly set the job's maximum node count based upon a required hostlist. -- Avoid running the HealthCheckProgram on non-responding nodes rather than DOWN nodes. -- Fix bug in handling of poll() functions on OS X (SLURM was ignoring POLLIN if POLLHUP flag was set at the same time). -- Pulled Cray logic out of common/node_select.c into it's own select/cray plugin cons_res is the default. To use linear add 'Linear' to SelectTypeParameters. -- Fixed bug where resizing jobs didn't correctly set used limits correctly. -- Change sched/backfill default time interval to 30 seconds and defer attempt to backfill schedule if slurmctld has more than 5 active RPCs. General improvements in logic scalability. -- Add SchedulerParameters option of default_sched_depth=# to control how many jobs on queue should be tested for attempted scheduling when a job completes or other routine events. Default value is 100 jobs. The full job queue is tested on a less frequent basis. This option can dramatically improve performance on systems with thousands of queued jobs. -- Gres/gpu now sets the CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment to control which GPU devices should be used for each job or job step and CUDA version 3.1+ is used. NOTE: SLURM's generic resource support is still under development. -- Modify select/cons_res to pack jobs onto allocated nodes differently and minimize system fragmentation. For example on nodes with 8 CPUs each, a job needing 10 CPUs will now ideally be allocated 8 CPUs on one node and 2 CPUs on another node. Previously the job would have ideally been allocated 5 CPUs on each node, fragmenting the unused resources more. -- Modified the behavior of update_job() in job_mgr.c to return when the first error is encountered instead of continuing with more job updates. -- Removed all references to the following slurm.conf parameters, all of which have been removed or replaced since version 2.0 or earlier: HashBase, HeartbeatInterval, JobAcctFrequency, JobAcctLogFile (instead use AccountingStorageLoc), JobAcctType, KillTree, MaxMemPerTask, and MpichGmDirectSupport. -- Fix bug in slurmctld restart logic that improperly reported jobs had invalid features: "Job 65537 has invalid feature list: fat". -- BLUEGENE - Removed thread pool for destroying blocks. It turns out the memory leak we were concerned about for creating and destroying threads in a plugin doesn't exist anymore. This increases throughput dramatically, allowing multiple jobs to start at the same time. -- BLUEGENE - Removed thread pool for starting and stopping jobs. For similar reasons as noted above. -- BLUEGENE - Handle blocks that never deallocate. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre9 ============================= -- sbatch can now submit jobs to multiple clusters and run on the earliest available. -- Fix bug introduced in pre8 that prevented job dependencies and job triggers from working without the --enable-debug configure option. -- Replaced slurm_addr with slurm_addr_t -- Replaced slurm_fd with slurm_fd_t -- Skeleton code added for BlueGeneQ. -- Jobs can now be submitted to multiple partitions (job queues) and use the one permitting earliest start time. -- Change slurmdb_coord_table back to acct_coord_table to keep consistant with < 2.1. -- Introduced locking system similar to that in the slurmctld for the assoc_mgr. -- Added ability to change a users name in accounting. -- Restore squeue support for "%G" format (group id) accidentally removed in 2.2.0.pre7. -- Added preempt_mode option to QOS. -- Added a grouping=individual for sreport size reports. -- Added remove_qos logic to jobs running under a QOS that was removed. -- scancel now exits with a 1 if any job is non-existant when canceling. -- Better handling of select plugins that don't exist on various systems for cross cluster communication. Slurmctld, slurmd, and slurmstepd now only load the default select plugin as well. -- Better error handling when loading plugins. -- Prevent scontrol from aborting if getlogin() returns NULL. -- Prevent scontrol segfault when there are hidden nodes. -- Prevent srun segfault after task launch failure. -- Added job_submit/lua plugin. -- Fixed sinfo on a bluegene system to print correctly the output for: sinfo -e -o "%9P %6m %.4c %.22F %f" -- Add scontrol commands "hold" and "release" to simplify setting a job's priority to 0 or 1. Also tests that the job is in pending state. -- Increase maximum node list size (for incoming RPC) from 1024 bytes to 64k. -- In the backup slurmctld, purge triggers before recovering trigger state to avoid duplicate entries. -- Fix bug in sacct processing of --fields= option. -- Fix bug in checkpoint/blcr for jobs spanning multiple nodes introduced when changing some variable names in version 2.2.0.pre5. -- Removed the vestigal set_max_cluster_usage() function from the Priority Plugin API. -- Modify the output of "scontrol show job" for the field ReqS:C:T=. Fields not specified by the user will be reported as "*" instead of 65534. -- Added DefaultQOS option for an association. -- BLUEGENE - Added -B option to the slurmctld to clear created blocks from the system on start. -- BLUEGENE - Added option to scontrol & sview to recreate existing blocks. -- Fixed flags for returning messages to use the correct munge key when going cross-cluster. -- BLUEGENE - Added option to scontrol & sview to resume blocks in an error state instead of just freeing them. -- sview patched to allow multiple row selection of jobs, patch from Dan Rusak -- Lower default slurmctld server thread count from 1024 to 256. Some systems process threads on a last-in first-out basis and the high thread count was causing unexpectedly high delays for some RPCs. -- Added to sacctmgr the ability for admins to reset the raw usage of a user or account -- Improved the efficiency of a few lines in sacctmgr * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre8 ============================= -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Backfill" for sched/backfill detailed logging. -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Gang" for detailed logging of gang scheduling activities. -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Priority" for detailed logging of priority multifactor activities. -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Reservation" for detailed logging of advanced reservations. -- Add run time to mail message upon job termination and queue time for mail message upon job begin. -- Add email notification option for job requeue. -- Generate a fatal error if the srun --relative option is used when not within an existing job allocation. -- Modify the meaning of InactiveLimit slightly. It will now cancel the job allocation created using the salloc or srun command if those commands cease responding for the InactiveLimit regardless of any running job steps. This parameter will no longer effect jobs spawned using sbatch. -- Remove AccountingStoragePass and JobCompPass from configuration RPC and scontrol show config command output. The use of SlurmDBD is still strongly recommended as SLURM will have limited database functionality or protection otherwise. -- Add sbatch options of --export and SBATCH_EXPORT to control which environment variables (if any) get propagated to the spawned job. This is particularly important for jobs that are submitted on one cluster and run on a different cluster. -- Fix bug in select/linear when used with gang scheduling and there are preempted jobs at the time slurmctld restarts that can result in over- subscribing resources. -- Added keeping track of the qos a job is running with in accounting. -- Fix for handling correctly jobs that resize, and also reporting correct stats on a job after it finishes. -- Modify gang scheduler so with SelectTypeParameter=CR_CPUS and task affinity is enabled, keep track of the individual CPUs allocated to jobs rather than just the count of CPUs allocated (which could overcommit specific CPUs for running jobs). -- Modify select/linear plugin data structures to eliminate underflow errors for the exclusive_cnt and tot_job_cnt variables (previously happened when slurmctld reconfigured while the job was in completing state). -- Change slurmd's working directory (and location of core files) to match that of the slurmctld daemon: the same directory used for log files, SlurmdLogFile (if specified with an absolute pathname) otherwise the directory used to save state, SlurmdSpoolDir. -- Add sattach support for the --pty option. -- Modify slurmctld communications logic to accept incoming messages on more than one port for improved scalability. -- Add SchedulerParameters option of "defer" to avoid trying to schedule a job at submission time, but to attempt scheduling many jobs at once for improved performance under heavy load. -- Correct logic controlling slurmctld thread limit eliminating check of RLIMIT_STACK. -- Make slurmctld's trigger logic more robust in the event that job records get purged before their trigger can be processed (e.g. MinJobAge=1). -- Add support for users to hold/release their own jobs (submit the job with srun/sbatch --hold/-H option or use "scontrol update jobid=# priority=0" to hold and "scontrol update jobid=# priority=1" to release). -- Added ability for sacct to query jobs by qos and a range of timelimits. -- Added ability for sstat to query pids of steps running. -- Support time specification in UTS format with a prefix of "uts" (e.g. "sbatch --begin=uts458389988 my.script"). * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre7 ============================= -- Fixed issue with sacctmgr if querying against non-existent cluster it works the same way as 2.1. -- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources (gres). -Modified select/linear and select/cons_res plugins to allocate resources at the level of a job without oversubcription. -Get sched/backfill operating with gres allocations. -Get gres configuration changes (reconfiguration) working. -Have job steps allocate resources. -Modified job step credential to include the job's and step's gres allocation details. -Integrate with HWLOC library to identify GPUs and NICs configured on each node. -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like linux systems. Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such should work fine, even sview. -- Added the ability to configure PreemptMode on a per-partition basis. -- Change slurmctld's default thread limit count to 1024, but adjust that down as needed based upon the process's resource limits. -- Removed the non-functional "SystemCPU" and "TotalCPU" reporting fields from sstat and updated man page -- Correct location of apbasil command on Cray XT systems. -- Fixed bug in MinCPU and AveCPU calculations in sstat command -- Send message to srun when the Prolog takes too long (MessageTimeout) to complete. -- Change timeout for socket connect() to be half of configured MessageTimeout. -- Added high-throughput computing web page with configuration guidance. -- Use more srun sockets to process incoming PMI (MPICH2) connections for better scalability. -- Added DebugFlags for the select/bluegene plugin: DEBUG_FLAG_BG_PICK, DEBUG_FLAG_BG_WIRES, DEBUG_FLAG_BG_ALGO, and DEBUG_FLAG_BG_ALGO_DEEP. -- Remove vestigial job record field "kill_on_step_done" (internal to the slurmctld daemon only). -- For MPICH2 jobs: Clear PMI state between job steps. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre6 ============================= -- sview - added ability to see database configuration. -- sview - added ability to add/remove visible tabs. -- sview - change way grid highlighting takes place on selected objects. -- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources. -Added node configuration parameter of Gres=. -Added ability to view/modify a node's gres using scontrol, sinfo and sview. -Added salloc, sbatch and srun --gres option. -Added ability to view a job or job step's gres using scontrol, squeue and sview. -Added new configuration parameter GresPlugins to define plugins used to manage generic resources. -Added framework for gres plugins. -Added DebugFlags option of "gres" for detailed debugging of gres actions. -- Slurmd modified to log slow slurmstepd startup and note possible file system problem. -- sview - There is now a .slurm/sviewrc created when running sview. Defaults are put in there as to how sview looks when first launched. You can set these by Ctrl-S or Options->Set Default Settings. -- Add scontrol "wait_job " option to wait for nodes to boot as needed. Useful for batch jobs (in Prolog, PrologSlurmctld or the script) if powering down idle nodes. -- Added salloc and sbatch option --wait-for-nodes. If set non-zero, job initiation will be delayed until all allocated nodes have booted. Salloc will log the delay with the messages "Waiting for nodes to boot" and "Nodes are ready for use". -- The Priority/mulitfactor plugin now takes into consideration size of job in cpus as well as size in nodes when looking at the job size factor. Previously only nodes were considered. -- When using the SlurmDBD messages waiting to be sent will be combined and sent in one message. -- Remove srun's --core option. Move the logic to an optional SPANK plugin (currently in the contribs directory, but plan to distribute through http://code.google.com/p/slurm-spank-plugins/). -- Patch for adding CR_CORE_DEFAULT_DIST_BLOCK as a select option to layout jobs using block layout across cores within each node instead of cyclic which was previously the default. -- Accounting - When removing associations if jobs are running, those jobs must be killed before proceeding. Before the jobs were killed automatically thus causing user confusion on what is most likely an admin's mistake. -- sview - color column keeps reference color when highlighting. -- Configuration parameter MaxJobCount changed from 16-bit to 32-bit field. The default MaxJobCount was changed from 5,000 to 10,000. -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like linux systems. Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such does not currently work. You can submit jobs with sbatch. Salloc and srun are not cross-cluster compatible, and given their nature to talk to actual compute nodes these will likely never be. -- salloc modified to forward SIGTERM to the spawned program. -- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab support) - Add GRES and WCKEY fields to MODIFYJOBS and GETJOBS commands. Add GRES field to GETNODES command. -- In struct job_descriptor and struct job_info: rename min_sockets to sockets_per_node, min_cores to cores_per_socket, and min_threads to threads_per_core (the values are not minimum, but represent the target values). -- Fixed bug in clearing a partition's DisableRootJobs value reported by Hongjia Cao. -- Purge (or ignore) terminated jobs in a more timely fashion based upon the MinJobAge configuration parameter. Small values for MinJobAge should improve responsiveness for high job throughput. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre5 ============================= -- Modify commands to accept time format with one or two digit hour value (e.g. 8:00 or 08:00 or 8:00:00 or 08:00:00). -- Modify time parsing logic to accept "minute", "hour", "day", and "week" in addition to the currently accepted "minutes", "hours", etc. -- Add slurmd option of "-C" to print actual hardware configuration and exit. -- Pass EnforcePartLimits configuration parameter from slurmctld for user commands to see the correct value instead of always "NO". -- Modify partition data structures to replace the default_part, disable_root_jobs, hidden and root_only fields with a single field called "flags" populated with the flags PART_FLAG_DEFAULT, PART_FLAG_NO_ROOT PART_FLAG_HIDDEN and/or PART_FLAG_ROOT_ONLY. This is a more flexible solution besides making for smaller data structures. -- Add node state flag of JOB_RESIZING. This will only exist when a job's accounting record is being written immediately before or after it changes size. This permits job accounting records to be written for a job at each size. -- Make calls to jobcomp and accounting_storage plugins before and after a job changes size (with the job state being JOB_RESIZING). All plugins write a record for the job at each size with intermediate job states being JOB_RESIZING. -- When changing a job size using scontrol, generate a script that can be executed by the user to reset SLURM environment variables. -- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res to use resources released by job resizing. -- Added to contribs foundation for Perl extension for slurmdb library. -- Add new configuration parameter JobSubmitPlugins which provides a mechanism to set default job parameters or perform other site-configurable actions at job submit time. -- Better postgres support for accounting, still beta. -- Speed up job start when using the slurmdbd. -- Forward step failure reason back to slurmd before in some cases it would just be SLURM_FAILURE returned. -- Changed squeue to fail when passed invalid -o or -S specifications. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre4 ============================= -- Add support for a PropagatePrioProcess configuration parameter value of 2 to restrict spawned task nice values to that of the slurmd daemon plus 1. This insures that the slurmd daemon always have a higher scheduling priority than spawned tasks. -- Add support in slurmctld, slurmd and slurmdbd for option of "-n " to reset the daemon's nice value. -- Fixed slurm_load_slurmd_status and slurm_pid2jobid to work correctly when multiple slurmds are in use. -- Altered srun to set max_nodes to min_nodes if not set when doing an allocation to mimic that which salloc and sbatch do. If running a step if the max isn't set it remains unset. -- Applied patch from David Egolf (David.Egolf@Bull.com). Added the ability to purge/archive accounting data on a day or hour basis, previously it was only available on a monthly basis. -- Add support for maximum node count in job step request. -- Fix bug in CPU count logic for job step allocation (used count of CPUS per node rather than CPUs allocated to the job). -- Add new configuration parameters GroupUpdateForce and GroupUpdateTime. See "man slurm.conf" for details about how these control when slurmctld updates its information of which users are in the groups allowed to use partitions. -- Added sacctmgr list events which will list events that have happened on clusters in accounting. -- Permit a running job to shrink in size using a command of "scontrol update JobId=# NumNodes=#" or "scontrol update JobId=# NodeList=". Subsequent job steps must explicitly specify an appropriate node count to work properly. -- Added resize_time field to job record noting the time of the latest job size change (to be used for accounting purposes). -- sview/smap now hides hidden partitions and their jobs by default, with an option to display them. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre3 ============================= -- Refine support for TotalView partial attach. Add parameter to configure program of "--enable-partial-attach". -- In select/cons_res, the count of CPUs on required nodes was formerly ignored in enforcing the maximum CPU limit. Also enforce maximum CPU limit when the topology/tree plugin is configured (previously ignored). -- In select/cons_res, allocate cores for a job using a best-fit approach. -- In select/cons_res, for jobs that can run on a single node, use a best-fit packing approach. -- Add support for new partition states of DRAIN and INACTIVE and new partition option of "Alternate" (alternate partition to use for jobs submitted to partitions that are currently in a state of DRAIN or INACTIVE). -- Add group membership cache. This can substantially speed up slurmctld startup or reconfiguration if many partitions have AllowGroups configured. -- Added slurmdb api for accessing slurm DB information. -- In select/linear: Modify data structures for better performance and to avoid underflow error messages when slurmctld restarts while jobs are in completing state. -- Added hash for slurm.conf so when nodes check in to the controller it can verify the slurm.conf is the same as the one it is running. If not an error message is displayed. To silence this message add NO_CONF_HASH to DebugFlags in your slurm.conf. -- Added error code ESLURM_CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY and prevent circular job dependencies (e.g. job 12 dependent upon job 11 AND job 11 is dependent upon job 12). -- Add BootTime and SlurmdStartTime to available node information. -- Fixed moab_2_slurmdb to work correctly under new database schema. -- Slurmd will drain a compute node when the SlurmdSpoolDir is full. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre2 ============================= -- Add support for spank_get_item() to get S_STEP_ALLOC_CORES and S_STEP_ALLOC_MEM. Support will remain for S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES and S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM. -- Kill individual job steps that exceed their memory limit rather than killing an entire job if one step exceeds its memory limit. -- Added configuration parameter VSizeFactor to enforce virtual memory limits for jobs and job steps as a percentage of their real memory allocation. -- Add scontrol ability to update job step's time limits. -- Add scontrol ability to update job's NumCPUs count. -- Add --time-min options to salloc, sbatch and srun. The scontrol command has been modified to display and modify the new field. sched/backfill plugin has been changed to alter time limits of jobs with the --time-min option if doing so permits earlier job initiation. -- Add support for TotalView symbol MPIR_partial_attach_ok with srun support to release processes which TotalView does not attach to. -- Add new option for SelectTypeParameters of CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE. This option will allocate one task per core by default. Without this option, by default one task will be allocated per thread on nodes with more than one ThreadsPerCore configured. -- Avoid accounting separately for a current pid corresponds to a Light Weight Process (Thread POSIX) appearing in the /proc directory. Only account for the original process (pid==tgid) to avoid accounting for memory use more than once. -- Add proctrack/cgroup plugin which uses Linux control groups (aka cgroup) to track processes on Linux systems having this feature enabled (kernel >= 2.6.24). -- Add logging of license transations including job_id. -- Add configuration parameters SlurmSchedLogFile and SlurmSchedLogLevel to support writing scheduling events to a separate log file. -- Added contribs/web_apps/chart_stats.cgi, a web app that invokes sreport to retrieve from the accounting storage db a user's request for job usage or machine utilization statistics and charts the results to a browser. -- Massive change to the schema in the storage_accounting/mysql plugin. When starting the slurmdbd the process of conversion may take a few minutes. You might also see some errors such as 'error: mysql_query failed: 1206 The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size'. If you get this, do not worry, it is because your setting of innodb_buffer_pool_size in your my.cnf file is not set or set too low. A decent value there should be 64M or higher depending on the system you are running on. See RELEASE_NOTES for more information. But setting this and then restarting the mysqld and slurmdbd will put things right. After this change we have noticed 50-75% increase in performance with sreport and sacct. -- Fix for MaxCPUs to honor partitions of 1 node that have more than the maxcpus for a job. -- Add support for "scontrol notify " to work for batch jobs. * Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre1 ============================= -- Added RunTime field to scontrol show job report -- Added SLURM_VERSION_NUMBER and removed SLURM_API_VERSION from slurm/slurm.h. -- Added support to handle communication with SLURM 2.1 clusters. Job's should not be lost in the future when upgrading to higher versions of SLURM. -- Added withdeleted options for listing clusters, users, and accounts -- Remove PLPA task affinity functions due to that package being deprecated. -- Preserve current partition state information and node Feature and Weight information rather than use contents of slurm.conf file after slurmctld restart with -R option or SIGHUP. Replace information with contents of slurm.conf after slurmctld restart without -R or "scontrol reconfigure". See RELEASE_NOTES file fore more details. -- Modify SLURM's PMI library (for MPICH2) to properly execute an executable program stand-alone (single MPI task launched without srun). -- Made GrpCPUs and MaxCPUs limits work for select/cons_res. -- Moved all SQL dependant plugins into a seperate rpm slurm-sql. This should be needed only where a connection to a database is needed (i.e. where the slurmdbd is running) -- Add command line option "no_sys_info" to PAM module to supress system logging of "access granted for user ...", access denied and other errors will still be logged. -- sinfo -R now has the user and timestamp in separate fields from the reason. -- Much functionality has been added to account_storage/pgsql. The plugin is still in a very beta state. It is still highly advised to use the mysql plugin, but if you feel like living on the edge or just really like postgres over mysql for some reason here you go. (Work done primarily by Hongjia Cao, NUDT.) * Changes in SLURM 2.1.17 ========================= -- Correct format of --begin reported in salloc, sbatch and srun --help message. -- Correct logic for regular users to increase nice value of their own jobs. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.16 ========================= -- Fixed minor warnings from gcc-4.5 -- Fixed initialization of accounting_stroage_enforce in the slurmctld. -- Fixed bug where if GrpNodes was lowered while pending jobs existed and where above the limit the slurmctld would seg fault. -- Fixed minor memory leak when unpack error happens on an association_shares_object_t. -- Set Lft and Rgt correctly when adding association. Fix for regression caused in 2.1.15, cosmetic fix only. -- Replaced optarg which was undefined in some spots to make sure ENV vars are set up correctly. -- When removing an account from a cluster with sacctmgr you no longer get a list of previously deleted associations. -- Fix to make jobcomp/(pg/my)sql correctly work when the database name is different than the default. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.15 ========================= -- Fix bug in which backup slurmctld can purge job scripts (and kill batch jobs) when it assumes primary control, particularly when this happens multiple times in a short time interval. -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 add IWD (Initial Working Directory) to the information reported about jobs. -- Fix bug in calculating a daily or weekly reservation start time when the reservation is updated. Patch from Per Lundqvist (National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping University, Sweden). -- Fix bug in how job step memory limits are calculated when the --relative option is used. -- Restore operation of srun -X option to forward SIGINT to spawned tasks without killing them. -- Fixed a bug in calculating the root account's raw usage reported by Par Andersson -- Fixed a bug in sshare displaying account hierarchy reported by Per Lundqvist. -- In select/linear plugin, when a node allocated to a running job is removed from a partition, only log the event once. Fixes problem reported by Per Lundqvist. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.14 ========================= -- Fixed coding mistakes in _slurm_rpc_resv_show() and job_alloc_info() found while reviewing the code. -- Fix select/cons_res logic to prevent allocating resources while jobs previously allocated resources on the node are still completing. -- Fixed typo in job_mgr.c dealing with qos instead of associations. -- Make sure associations and qos' are initiated when added. -- Fixed wrong initialization for wckeys in the association manager. -- Added wiki.conf configuration parameter of HidePartitionNodes. See "man wiki.conf" for more information. -- Add "JobAggregationTime=#" field SchedulerParameter configuration parameter output. -- Modify init.d/slurm and slurmdbd scripts to prevent the possible inadvertent inclusion of "." in LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. To fail, the script would need to be executed by user root or SlurmUser without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable set and there would have to be a maliciously altered library in the working directory. Thanks to Raphael Geissert for identifying the problem. This addresses security vulnerability CVE-2010-3380. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.13 ========================= -- Fix race condition which can set a node state to IDLE on slurmctld startup even if it has running jobs. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.12 ========================= -- Fixes for building on OS X 10.5. -- Fixed a few '-' without a '\' in front of them in the man pages. -- Fixed issues in client tools where a requeued job did get displayed correctly. -- Update typos in doc/html/accounting.shtml doc/html/resource_limits.shtml doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5 and doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 -- Fixed a bug in exitcode:signal display in sacct -- Fix bug when request comes in for consumable resources and the -c option is used in conjunction with -O -- Fixed squeue -o "%h" output formatting -- Change select/linear message "error: job xxx: best_fit topology failure" to debug type. -- BLUEGENE - Fix for sinfo -R to group all midplanes together in a single line for midplanes in an error state instead of 1 line for each midplane. -- Fix srun to work correctly with --uid when getting an allocation and creating a step, also fix salloc to assume identity at the correct time as well. -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with jobs being refused when running dynamic mode and every job on the system happens to be the same size. -- Removed bad #define _SLURMD_H from slurmd/get_mach_stat.h. Didn't appear to cause any problems being there, just incorrect syntax. -- Validate the job ID when salloc or srun receive an SRUN_JOB_COMPLETE RPC to avoid killing the wrong job if the original command exits and the port gets re-used by another command right away. -- Fix to node in correct state in accounting when updating it to drain from scontrol/sview. -- BLUEGENE - Removed incorrect unlocking on error cases when starting jobs. -- Improve logging of invalid sinfo and squeue print options. -- BLUEGENE - Added check to libsched_if to allow root to run even outside of SLURM. This is needed when running certain blocks outside of SLURM in HTC mode. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.11-2 =========================== -- BLUEGENE - make it so libsched_if.so is named correctly on 'L' it is libsched_if64.so and on 'P' it is libsched_if.so * Changes in SLURM 2.1.11 ========================= -- BLUEGENE - fix sinfo to not get duplicate entries when running command sinfo -e -o "%9P %6m %.4c %.22F %f" -- Fix bug that caused segv when deleting a partition with pending jobs. -- Better error message for when trying to modify an account's name with sacctmgr. -- Added back removal of #include "src/common/slurm_xlator.h" from select/cons_res. -- Fix incorrect logic in global_accounting in regression tests for setting QOS. -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where removing a small block in dynamic mode, and other blocks also in that midplane needed to be removed and were in and error state. They all weren't removed correctly in accounting. -- Prevent scontrol segv with "scontrol show node " command with nodes in a hidden partition. -- Fixed sizing of popup grids in sview. -- Fixed sacct when querying against a jobid the start time is not set. -- Fix configure to get correct version of pkg-config if both 32bit and 64bit libs are installed. -- Fix issue with sshare not sorting correctly the tree of associations. -- Update documentation for sreport. -- BLUEGENE - fix regression in 2.1.10 on assigning multiple jobs to one block. -- Minor memory leak fixed when killing job error happens. -- Fix sacctmgr list assoc when talking to a 2.2 slurmdbd. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.10 ========================= -- Fix memory leak in sched/builtin plugin. -- Fixed sbatch to work correctly when no nodes are specified, but --ntasks-per-node is. -- Make sure account and wckey for a job are lower case before inserting into accounting. -- Added note to squeue documentation about --jobs option displaying jobs even if they are on hidden partitions. -- Fix srun to work correctly with --uid when getting an allocation and creating a step. -- Fix for when removing a limit from a users association inside the fairshare tree the parents limit is now inherited automatically in the slurmctld. Previously the slurmctld would have to be restarted. This problem only exists when setting a users association limit to -1. -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux (CEA) dealing with possible overflows that could come up with the select/cons_res plugin with uint32_t's being treated as uint16_t's. -- Correct logic for creating a reservation with a Duration=Infinite (used to set reservation end time in the past). -- Correct logic for creating a reservation that properly handles the OVERLAP and IGNORE_JOBS flags (flags were ignored under some conditions). -- Fixed a fair-share calculation bug in the priority/multifactor plugin. -- Make sure a user entry in the database that was previously deleted is restored clean when added back, i.e. remove admin privileges previously given. -- BLUEGENE - Future start time is set correctly when eligible time for a job is in the future, but the job can physically run earlier. -- Updated Documentation for sacctmgr for Wall and CPUMin options stating when the limit is reached running jobs will be killed. -- Fix deadlock issue in the slurmctld when lowering limits in accounting to lower than that of pending jobs. -- Fix bug in salloc, sbatch and srun that could under some conditions process the --threads-per-core, --cores-per-socket and --sockets-per-node options improperly. -- Fix bug in select/cons_res with memory management plus job preemption with job removal (e.g. requeue) which under some conditions failed to preempt jobs. -- Fix deadlock potential when using qos and associations in the slurmctld. -- Update documentation to state --ntasks-per-* is for a maximum value instead of an absolute. -- Get ReturnToService=2 working for front-end configurations (e.g. Cray or BlueGene). -- Do not make a non-responding node available for use after running "scontrol update nodename= state=resume". Wait for node to respond before use. -- Added slurm_xlator.h to jobacct_gather plugins so they resolve symbols correctly when linking to the slurm api. -- You can now update a jobs QOS from scontrol. Previously you could only do this from sview. -- BLUEGENE - Fixed bug where if running in non-dynamic mode sometimes the start time returned for a job when using test-only would not be correct. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.9 ======================== -- In select/linear - Fix logic to prevent over-subscribing memory with shared nodes (Shared=YES or Shared=FORCE). -- Fix for handling -N and --ntasks-per-node without specifying -n with salloc and sbatch. -- Fix jobacct_gather/linux if not polling on tasks to give tasks time to start before doing initial gather. -- When changing priority with the multifactor plugin we make sure we update the last_job_update variable. -- Fixed sview for gtk < 2.10 to display correct debug level at first. -- Fixed sview to not select too fast when using a mouse right click. -- Fixed sacct to display correct timelimits for jobs from accounting. -- Fixed sacct when running as root by default query all users as documented. -- In proctrack/linuxproc, skip over files in /proc that are not really user processes (e.g. "/proc/bus"). -- Fix documentation bug for slurmdbd.conf -- Fix slurmctld to update qos preempt list without restart. -- Fix bug in select/cons_res that in some cases would prevent a preempting job from using of resources already allocated to a preemptable running job. -- Fix for sreport in interactive mode to honor parsable/2 options. -- Fixed minor bugs in sacct and sstat commands -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue if the slurmd becomes unresponsive and you have blocks in an error state accounting is correct when the slurmd comes back up. -- Corrected documentation for -n option in srun/salloc/sbatch -- BLUEGENE - when running a willrun test along with preemption the bluegene plugin now does the correct thing. -- Fix possible memory corruption issue which can cause slurmctld to abort. -- BLUEGENE - fixed small memory leak when setting up env. -- Fixed deadlock if using accounting and cluster changes size in the database. This can happen if you mistakenly have multiple primary slurmctld's running for a single cluster, which should rarely if ever happen. -- Fixed sacct -c option. -- Critical bug fix in sched/backfill plugin that caused memory corruption. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.8 ======================== -- Update BUILD_NOTES for AIX and bgp systems on how to get sview to build correctly. -- Update man page for scontrol when nodes are in the "MIXED" state. -- Better error messages for sacctmgr. -- Fix bug in allocation of CPUs with select/cons_res and --cpus-per-task option. -- Fix bug in dependency support for afterok and afternotok options to insure that the job's exit status gets checked for dependent jobs prior to puring completed job records. -- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set an incorrect expected start time for a job. -- BLUEGENE - Fix for systems that have midplanes defined in the database that don't exist. -- Accounting, fixed bug where if removing an object a rollback wasn't possible. -- Fix possible scontrol stack corruption when listing jobs with very a long job or working directory name (over 511 characters). -- Insure that SPANK environment variables set by salloc or sbatch get propagated to the Prolog on all nodes by setting SLURM_SPANK_* environment variables for srun's use. -- In sched/wiki2 - Add support for the MODIFYJOB command to alter a job's comment field -- When a cluster first registers with the SlurmDBD only send nodes in an non-usable state. Before all nodes were sent. -- Alter sacct to be able to query jobs by association id. -- Edit documentation for scontrol stating ExitCode as something not alterable. -- Update documentation about ReturnToService and silently rebooting nodes. -- When combining --ntasks-per-node and --exclusive in an allocation request the correct thing, giving the allocation the entire node but only ntasks-per-node, happens. -- Fix accounting transaction logs when deleting associations to put the ids instead of the lfts which could change over time. -- Fix support for salloc, sbatch and srun's --hint option to avoid allocating a job more sockets per node or more cores per socket than desired. Also when --hint=compute_bound or --hint=memory_bound then avoid allocating more than one task per hyperthread (a change in behavior, but almost certainly a preferable mode of operation). * Changes in SLURM 2.1.7 ======================== -- Modify srun, salloc and sbatch parsing for the --signal option to accept either a signal name in addition to the previously supported signal numbers (e.g. "--signal=USR2@200"). -- BLUEGENE - Fixed sinfo --long --Node output for cpus on a single cnode. -- In sched/wiki2 - Fix another logic bug in support of Moab being able to identify preemptable jobs. -- In sched/wiki2 - For BlueGene systems only: Fix bug preventing Moab from being able to correctly change the node count of pending jobs. -- In select/cons_res - Fix bug preventing job preemption with a configuration of Shared=FORCE:1 and PreemptMode=GANG,SUSPEND. -- In the TaskProlog, add support for an "unset" option to clear environment variables for the user application. Also add support for embedded white- space in the environment variables exported to the user application (everything after the equal sign to the end of the line is included without alteration). -- Do not install /etc/init.d/slurm or /etc/init.d/slurmdbd on AIX systems. -- BLUEGENE - fixed check for small blocks if a node card of a midplane is in an error state other jobs can still run on the midplane on other nodecards. -- BLUEGENE - Check to make sure job killing is in the active job table in DB2 when killing the job. -- Correct logic to support ResvOverRun configuration parameter. -- Get --acctg-freq option working for srun and salloc commands. -- Fix sinfo display of drained nodes correctly with the summarize flag. -- Fix minor memory leaks in slurmd and slurmstepd. -- Better error messages for failed step launch. -- Modify srun to insure compatability of the --relative option with the node count requested. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.6-2 ========================== -- In sched/wiki2 - Fix logic in support of Moab being able to identify preemptable jobs. -- Applied fixes to a debug4 message in priority_multifactor.c sent in by Per Lundqvist -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where incorrect nodecards could be picked when looking at combining small blocks to make a larger small block. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.6 ======================== -- For newly submitted jobs, report expected start time in squeue --start as "N/A" rather than current time. -- Correct sched/backfill logic so that it runs in a more timely fashion. -- Fixed issue if running on accounting cache and priority/multifactor to initialize the root association when the database comes back up. -- Emulated BLUEGENE - fixed issue where blocks weren't always created correctly when loading from state. This does not apply to a real bluegene system, only emulated. -- Fixed bug when job is completing and its cpu_cnt would be calculated incorrectly, possibly resulting in an underflow being logged. -- Fixed bug where if there are pending jobs in a partition which was updated to have no nodes in it the slurmctld would dump core. -- Fixed smap and sview to display partitions with no nodes in them. -- Improve configure script's logic to detect LUA libraries. -- Fix bug that could cause slurmctld to abort if select/cons_res is used AND a job is submitted using the --no-kill option AND one of the job's nodes goes DOWN AND slurmctld restarts while that job is still running. -- In jobcomp plugins, job time limit was sometimes recorded improperly if not set by user (recorded huge number rather than partition's time limit). * Changes in SLURM 2.1.5 ======================== -- BLUEGENE - Fixed display of draining nodes for sinfo -R. -- Fixes to scontrol and sview when setting a job to an impossible start time. -- Added -h to srun for help. -- Fix for sacctmgr man page to remove erroneous 'with' statements. -- Fix for unpacking jobs with accounting statistics, previously it appears only steps were unpacked correctly, for the most case sacct would only display this information making this fix a very minor one. -- Changed scontrol and sview output for jobs with unknown end times from 'NONE' to 'Unknown'. -- Fixed mysql plugin to reset classification when adding a previously deleted cluster. -- Permit a batch script to reset umask and have that propagate to tasks spawed by subsequent srun. Previously the umask in effect when sbatch was executed was propagated to tasks spawed by srun. -- Modify slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() and slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() functions to not write explanation of failures to stderr. Only return -1 and set errno. -- Correction in configurator.html script. Prolog and Epilog were reversed. -- BLUEGENE - Fixed race condition where if a nodecard has an error on an un-booted block when a job comes to use it before the state checking thread notices it which could cause the slurmctld to lock up on a non-dynamic system. -- In select/cons_res with FastSchedule=0 and Procs=# defined for the node, but no specific socket/core/thread count configured, avoid fatal error if the number of cores on a node is less than the number of Procs configured. -- Added ability for the perlapi to utilize opaque data types returned from the C api. -- BLUEGENE - made the perlapi get correct values for cpus per node, Previously it would give the number of cpus per cnode instead of midplane. -- BLEUGENE - Fixed issue where if a block being selected for a job to use and during the process a hardware failure happens, previously the block would still be allowed to be used which would fail or requeue the job depending on the configuration. -- For SPANK job environment, avoid duplicate "SPANK_" prefix for environment set by sbatch jobs. -- Make squeue select jobs on hidden partitions when requesting more than one. -- Avoid automatically cancelling job steps when all of the tasks on some node have gracefully terminated. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.4 ======================== -- Fix for purge script in accounting to use correct options. -- If SelectType=select/linear and SelectTypeParameters=CR_Memory fix bug that would fail to release memory reserved for a job if "scontrol reconfigure" is executed while the job is in completing state. -- Fix bug in handling event trigger for job time limit while job is still in pending state. -- Fixed display of Ave/MaxCPU in sacct for jobs. Steps were printed correctly. -- When node current features differs from slurm.conf, log the node names using a hostlist expression rather than listing individual node names. -- Improve ability of srun to abort job step for some task launch failures. -- Fix mvapich plugin logic to release the created job allocation on initialization failure (previously the failures would cancel job step, but retain job allocation). -- Fix bug in srun for task count so large that it overflows int data type. -- Fix important bug in select/cons_res handling of ntasks-per-core parameter that was uncovered by a bug fixed in v2.1.3. Bug produced fatal error for slurmctld: "cons_res: cpus computation error". -- Fix bug in select/cons_res handling of partitions configured with Shared=YES. Prior logic failed to support running multiple jobs per node. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-2 ========================== -- Modified spec file to obsolete pam_slurm when installing the slurm-pam_slurm rpm. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-1 ========================== -- BLUEGENE - Fix issues on static/overlap systems where if a midplane was drained you would not be able to create new blocks on it. -- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab): Add excluded host list to job information using new keyword "EXCLUDE_HOSTLIST". -- Correct slurmd reporting of incorrect socket/core/thread counts. -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab): Do not extend a job's end time for suspend/resume or startup delay due to node boot time. A job's end time will always be its start time plus time limit. -- Added build-time option (to configure program) of --with-pam_dir to specify the directory into which PAM modules get installed, although it should pick the proper directory by default. "make install" and "rpmbuild" should now put the pam_slurm.so file in the proper directory. -- Modify PAM module to link against SLURM API shared library and use exported slurm_hostlist functions. -- Do not block new jobs with --immediate option while another job is in the process of being requeued (which can take a long time for some node failure modes). -- For topology/tree, log invalid hostnames in a single hostlist expression rather than one per line. -- A job step's default time limit will be UNLIMITED rather than partition's default time limit. The step will automatically be cancelled as part of the job termination logic when the job's time limit is reached. -- sacct - fixed bug when checking jobs against a reservation -- In select/cons_res, fix support for job allocation with --ntasks_per_node option. Previously could allocate too few CPUs on some nodes. -- Adjustment made to init message to the slurmdbd to allow backwards compatibility with future 2.2 release. YOU NEED TO UPGRADE SLURMDBD BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. -- Fix accounting when comment of down/drained node has double quotes in it. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.2 ======================== -- Added nodelist to sview for jobs on non-bluegene systems -- Correction in value of batch job environment variable SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE under some conditions. -- When a node silently fails which is already drained/down the reason for draining for the node is not changed. -- Srun will ignore SLURM_NNODES environment variable and use the count of currently allocated nodes if that count changes during the job's lifetime (e.g. job allocation uses the --no-kill option and a node goes DOWN, job step would previously always fail). -- Made it so sacctmgr can't add blank user or account. The MySQL plugin will also reject such requests. -- Revert libpmi.so version for compatibility with SLURM version 2.0 and earlier to avoid forcing applications using a specific libpmi.so version to rebuild unnecessarily (revert from libpmi.so.21.0.0 to libpmi.so.0.0.0). -- Restore support for a pending job's constraints (required node features) when slurmctld is restarted (internal structure needed to be rebuilt). -- Removed checkpoint_blcr.so from the plugin rpm in the slurm.spec since it is also in the blcr rpm. -- Fixed issue in sview where you were unable to edit the count of jobs to share resources. -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where tasks on steps weren't being displayed correctly with scontrol and sview. -- BLUEGENE - fixed wiki2 plugin to report correct task count for pending jobs. -- BLUEGENE - Added /etc/ld.so.conf.d/slurm.conf to point to the directory holding libsched_if64.so when building rpms. -- Adjust get_wckeys call in slurmdbd to allow operators to list wckeys. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.1 ======================== -- Fix for case sensitive databases when a slurmctld has a mixed case clustername to lower case the string to easy compares. -- Fix squeue if job is completing and failed to print remaining nodes instead of failed message. -- Fix sview core when searching for partitions by state. -- Fixed setting the start time when querying in sacct to the beginning of the day if not set previously. -- Defined slurm_free_reservation_info_msg and slurm_free_topo_info_msg in common/slurm_protocol_defs.h -- Avoid generating error when a job step includes a memory specification and memory is not configured as a consumable resource. -- Patch for small memory leak in src/common/plugstack.c -- Fix sview search on node state. -- Fix bug in which improperly formed job dependency specification can cause slurmctld to abort. -- Fixed issue where slurmctld wouldn't always get a message to send cluster information when registering for the first time with the slurmdbd. -- Add slurm_*_trigger.3 man pages for event trigger APIs. -- Fix bug in job preemption logic that would free allocated memory twice. -- Fix spelling issues (from Gennaro Oliva) -- Fix issue when changing parents of an account in accounting all childern weren't always sent to their respected slurmctlds until a restart. -- Restore support for srun/salloc/sbatch option --hint=nomultithread to bind tasks to cores rather than threads (broken in slurm v2.1.0-pre5). -- Fix issue where a 2.0 sacct could not talk correctly to a 2.1 slurmdbd. -- BLUEGENE - Fix issue where no partitions have any nodes assigned them to alert user no blocks can be created. -- BLUEGENE - Fix smap to put BGP images when using -Dc on a Blue Gene/P system. -- Set SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR environment variable for srun and salloc commands to match behavior of sbatch command. -- Report WorkDir from "scontrol show job" command for jobs launched using salloc and srun. -- Update correctly the wckey when changing it on a pending job. -- Set wckeyid correctly in accounting when cancelling a pending job. -- BLUEGENE - critical fix where jobs would be killed incorrectly. -- BLUEGENE - fix for sview putting multiple ionodes on to nodelists when viewing the jobs tab. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0 ======================== -- Improve sview layout of blocks in use. -- A user can now change the dimensions of the grid in sview. -- BLUEGENE - improved startup speed further for large numbers of defined blocks -- Fix to _get_job_min_nodes() in wiki2/get_jobs.c suggested by Michal Novotny -- BLUEGENE - fixed issues when updating a pending job when a node count was incorrect for the asked for connection type. -- BLUEGENE - fixed issue when combining blocks that are in ready states to make a larger block from those or make multiple smaller blocks by splitting the larger block. Previously this would only work with block in a free state. -- Fix bug in wiki(2) plugins where if HostFormat=2 and the task list is greater than 64 we don't truncate. Previously this would mess up Moab by sending a truncated task list when doing a get jobs. -- Added update slurmctld debug level to sview when in admin mode. -- Added logic to make sure if enforcing a memory limit when using the jobacct_gather plugin a user can no longer turn off the logic to enforce the limit. -- Replaced many calls to getpwuid() with reentrant uid_to_string() -- The slurmstepd will now refresh it's log file handle on a reconfig, previously if a log was rolled any output from the stepd was lost. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre9 ============================= -- Added the "scontrol update SlurmctldDebug" as the preferred alternative to the "scontrol setdebug" command. -- BLUEGENE - made it so when removing a block in an error state the nodes in the block are set correctly in accounting as not in error. -- Fixed issue where if slurmdbd is not up qos' are set up correctly for associations off of cache. -- scontrol, squeue, sview all display the correct node, cpu count along with correct corresponding nodelist on completing jobs. -- Patch (Mark Grondona) fixes serious security vulnerability in SLURM in the spank_job_env functionality. -- Improve spank_job_env interface and documentation -- Add ESPANK_NOT_LOCAL error code to spank_err_t -- Made the #define DECAY_INTERVAL used in the priority/multifactor plugin a slurm.conf variable (PriorityCalcPeriod) -- Added new macro SLURM_VERSION for use in autoconf scripts to determine current version of slurm installed on system when building against the api. -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux that adds an entry into the error file when a job or step receives a TERM or KILL signal. -- Make it so env var SLURM_SRUN_COMM_HOST is overwritten if already in existence in the slurmd. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre8 ============================= -- Rearranged the "scontrol show job" output into functional groupings -- Change the salloc/sbatch/srun -P option to -d (dependency) -- Removed the srun -d option; must use srun --slurmd-debug instead -- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated when sending updates to slurmctlds. -- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to fill in default association. -- Accounting - Slurmctld and slurmdbd will now set uids of users which were created after the start of the daemons on reconfig. Slurmdbd will attempt to set previously non-existant uids every hour. -- Patch from Aaron Knister and Mark Grondona, to parse correctly quoted #SBATCH options in a batch script. -- job_desc_msg_t - in, out, err have been changed to std_in, std_out, and std_err respectfully. Needed for PySLURM, since Python sees (in) as a keyword. -- Changed the type of addr to struct sockaddr_in in _message_socket_accept() in sattach.c, step_launch.c, and allocate_msg.c, and moved the function into a common place for all the calls since the code was very similar. -- proctrack/lua support has been added see contribs/lua/protrack.lua -- replaced local gtk m4 test with AM_PATH_GTK_2_0 -- changed AC_CHECK_LIB to AC_SEARCH_LIBS to avoid extra libs in compile lines. -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux to improve error message in slurmd/req.c -- Added support for split groups from (Matthiu Hautreux CEA) -- Patch from Mark Grondona to move blcr scripts into pkglibexecdir -- Patch from Doug Parisek to calculate a job's projected start time under the builtin scheduler. -- Removed most global variables out of src/common/jobacct_common.h * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre7 ============================= -- BLUEGENE - make 2.1 run correctly on a real bluegene cluster -- sacctmgr - Display better debug for when an admin specifies a non-existant parent account when changing parent accounts. -- Added a mechanism to the slurmd to defer the epilog from starting until after a running prolog has finished. -- If a node reboots inbetween checking status the node is marked down unless ReturnToService=2 -- Added -R option to slurmctld to recover partition state also when restarting or reconfiguring. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre6 ============================= -- When getting information about nodes in hidden partitions, return a node name of NULL rather than returning no information about the node so that node index information is still valid. -- When querying database for jobs in certain state and a time period is given only jobs in that state during the period will be returned, previously if a time period was given in sacct jobs eligible to run or running would be displayed, which is still the default if no states are requested. -- One can now query jobs based on size (nodes and or cpus) (mysql plugin only) -- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that tests for a missing config file before any other processing in spank_init(). This now prevents fatal errors from being mistakenly treated as recoverable. -- --enable-debug no longer has to be stated at configure time to have the slurmctld or slurmstepd dump core on a seg fault. -- Moved the errant slurm_job_node_ready() declaration from job_info.h to slurm.h and deleted job_info.h. -- Added the slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() API for working with the job_resources_t structure. -- BLUEGENE - speed up start up for systems that have many blocks (100+) configured on the system. * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre5 ============================= -- Add squeue option "--start" to report expected start time of pending jobs. -- Sched/backfill plugin modified to set expected start time of pending jobs. -- Add SchedulerParameters option of "max_job_bf=#" to control how far down the queue of pending jobs that SLURM searches in an attempt backfill schedule them. The default value is 50 jobs. -- Fixed cause of squeue -o "%C" seg fault. -- Add -"-signal=@