Posts tagged slurm
Why does my job wait so long before being executed? or: Why is my job being overtaken by other jobs in the queue?
- 19 June 2017
- FAQ
There are several possible reasons for to be queued for a long time and/or to be overtaken …
… later submitted jobs with a higher priority (usually these have used less of their share then your job).
When will my SLURM job start?
- 19 June 2017
- FAQ
The SLURM squeue command with the options - -start and -j provides an estimate for the job start time, for example:
How to display the batch script for a running job
- 19 June 2017
- FAQ
Once your batch job started execution (i.e. is in RUNNING
state)
your job script is copied to the slurm admin nodes and kept until the
job finalizes - this prevents problems that might occur if the job
script gets modified while the job is running. As a side-effect you
can delete the job script without interfering with the execution of
the job.
If you accidentally removed or modified the job script of a running job, you can use the following command to query for the script that is actually used for executing the job:
How can I see on which nodes my job was running?
- 19 June 2017
- FAQ
Yon can use the SLURM sacct
command with the following options:
How can I choose which account to use, if I am subscribed to more than one project?
- 19 June 2017
- FAQ
Just insert the following line into your job script:
There is no default project account.