[slurm-users] jobs stuck in "CG" state

[Durai Arasan]

Hello!

We have a huge number of jobs stuck in CG state from a user who probably wrote code with bad I/O. "scancel" does not make them go away. Is there a way for admins to get rid of these jobs without draining and rebooting the nodes. I read somewhere that killing the respective slurmstepd process will do the job. Is this possible? Any other solutions? Also are there any parameters in slurm.conf one can set to manage such situations better?

Best,

Durai

MPI Tübingen

[Florian Zillner]

Hi,

scancel the job, then set the nodes to a "down" state like so "scontrol update nodename=<nodename> state=down reason=cg" and resume them afterwards.

However, if there are tasks stuck, then in most cases a reboot is needed to bring the node back with in a clean state.

Best,

Florian

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