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| ===== The auto_tmpdir plugin ===== | ===== The auto_tmpdir plugin ===== |
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| | The original **auto_tmpdir** Slurm plugin has been rewritten (as of March 12, 2020) to no longer set ''$TMPDIR'' to the per-job directory it creates. Instead, it creates the following paths and bind-mounts them: |
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| | ^Directory created^Bind mountpoint^ |
| | |''/tmp/job-«job-id»''| | |
| | |''/tmp/job-«job-id»/tmp''|''/tmp''| |
| | |''/tmp/job-«job-id»/var_tmp''|''/var/tmp''| |
| | |''/dev/shm/job-«job-id»''|''/dev/shm''| |
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| | ==== Shared tmpdir ==== |
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| | In some cases the user may want the ''/tmp'' directory for the job to be shared by all nodes participating on the job — e.g. somewhere on ''/lustre/scratch''. The **auto_tmpdir** plugin implements a ''--use-shared-tmpdir'' flag to the **salloc/srun/sbatch** commands to request this: |
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| | ^Directory created^Bind mountpoint^ |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»''| | |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»/tmp''|''/tmp''| |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»/var_tmp''|''/var/tmp''| |
| | |''/dev/shm/job-«job-id»''|''/dev/shm''| |
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| | A variant on the shared temporary directory scheme is to have each node use its own separate subdirectory (''--use-shared-tmpdir=per-node''): |
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| | ^Directory created^Bind mountpoint^ |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»''| | |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»/«hostname»''| | |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»/«hostname»/tmp''|''/tmp''| |
| | |''/lustre/scratch/slurm/job-«job-id»/«hostname»/var_tmp''|''/var/tmp''| |
| | |''/dev/shm/job-«job-id»''|''/dev/shm''| |
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| | When using the ''--use-shared-tmpdir'' flag, the plugin can also be asked to //not// remove the directories when the job exits by including the ''--no-rm-tmpdir'' flag. |
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| | <WRAP center round important 60%> |
| | The ''--no-rm-tmpdir'' flag should be used very cautiously, since leaving files behind on ''/lustre/scratch'' will consume capacity on that file system. A viable usage scenario would be debugging a job script that copies files to local scratch, runs a job, then copies results back to other storage. Once that behavior is debugged and goes into production the user would stop using the ''--no-rm-tmpdir'' and ''--use-shared-tmpdir'' flags. |
| | </WRAP> |
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| | ===== Source code ===== |
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| | The source code for the **auto_tmpdir** plugin is publicly available on [[https://github.com/jtfrey/auto_tmpdir/|Github]]. |