Try srun -w $NODENAME

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> On Aug 26, 2015, at 11:06 AM, Thompson, Matt[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS 
> INC] (GSFC-610.1) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> SLURM Dev,
> 
> I'm hoping you can help me with something. I recently had need to figure out 
> what's going on inside a running batch job. I had a suspicion that maybe a 
> job that should use, say, 48 cores on a few nodes managed to somehow pack 
> them all on a single node due to my idiocy with an mpirun command.
> 
> So, I have a job-id and I know I can do, say:
> 
>  srun --jobid=<JOBID> ps -ef
> 
> and I'll get a ps on the nodes in that allocation. But, if that allocation 
> has, say, 14 nodes, I get 14 nodes worth of information that is hard to parse 
> out since ps doesn't prepend/print hostname[1].
> 
> I thought maybe there is a way to run the srun command on just one of the 
> nodes in the allocation and I tried:
> 
>  srun --jobid=<JOBID> --nodelist=node1 ps -ef
> 
> where node1 is one of the nodes in the allocation. But, no, that doesn't seem 
> to do what I'd hoped as I still get every node running ps.
> 
> Now, I'm sure I could whip up a bash script which tests for the hostname and 
> runs a command only if that matches the one I want, but I was hoping for a 
> nice simple way with srun itself to do this.
> 
> Matt
> 
> [1] That I know of. I didn't see "hostname" in the ps manpage.
> -- 
> Matt Thompson          SSAI, Sr Software Test Engr
> NASA GSFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
> Code 610.1, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771
> Phone: 301-614-6712              Fax: 301-614-6246

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