Bug#941121: upgrade to debian 9.11 removes config entry

[Alois Schlögl <alois.schloegl@ist.ac.at>]

On 9/27/19 12:20 PM, Gennaro Oliva wrote:
> Hi Alois,
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 09:41:40AM +0200, Alois Schlögl wrote:
>> [remark: this might be a problem of systemd, I'm not sure whether this
>> is an issue of slurm or of systemd.]
>>
>> When upgrading from debian 9.10 to 9.11 [2], a configuration entry in
>>  /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/slurmd.service
>> got lost.
>>
>> In order to address an issue ("Cannot allocate memory" when running mpi
>> jobs under slurm, it is described in [1]) we had to add in
>>  /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/slurmd.service
> This file is a symbolic link to /lib/systemd/system/slurmd.service that
> is managed by the package.
>
>> this entry
>>
>>   [Service]
>>   ...
>>   LimitMEMLOCK=1000000000000
> According to systemd documentation you need to add this entry to:
>
> /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service
>
> or inside a file under:
>
> /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service.d
>
> man systemd.unit(5) for details.
>
> Best regards,


Thank you very much for this hint. This solved the issue.


    

Best regards,

    Alois