Hi Frank, A way to get "how long jobs wait in the queue" is to import the data to XDMOD (https://open.xdmod.org/9.0/index.html). The nifty reporting tool has many features to make it easier for us to report out the cluster usage.
Hadrian On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:08 AM Heckes, Frank <hec...@mps.mpg.de> wrote: > Hello Ole, > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >>> * (average) queue length for a certain partition > > > > I wonder what exactly does your question mean? Maybe the number of jobs > or > > CPUs in the Pending state? Maybe relative to the number of CPUs in the > > partition? > > > This result from a mgmt. - question. How long jobs have to wait (in s, > min, h, day) before they getting executed and > how many jobs are waiting (are queued) for each partition in a certain > time interval. > The first one is easy to find with sacct and submit, start counts + > difference + averaging. > The second is a bit cumbersome, so I wonder whether a 'solution' is > already around. The easiest way is to monitor from the beginning and store > the squeue ouput for later evaluation. Unfortunately I didn’t do that. > > Cheers, > -Frank > > > The "slurmacct" command prints (possibly for a specified partition) the > > average job waiting time while Pending in the queue, but not the queue > length > > information. > > > > It may be difficult to answer your question from the Slurm database. > The sacct > > command displays accounting data for all jobs and job steps, but not > directly > > for partitions. > > > > There are other Slurm monitoring tools which perhaps can supply the data > you > > are looking for. You could ask this list again. > > > > /Ole > > -- Hadrian Djohari Manager of Research Computing Services, [U]Tech Case Western Reserve University (W): 216-368-0395 (M): 216-798-7490
