As far as I remember sprio does the calculation on its own when executed and priority in job structure stored by slurmctl is updated periodically... maybe this is the answer ?
cheers, Marcin śr., 17 paź 2018 o 00:42 Glen MacLachlan <bindat...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > > Hi all, > > I'm using slurm 17.02.8 and when I query pending jobs with sprio or sacct > I get different results for the slurm priority. Can someone explain to me > why the difference or at least point me to the document where this is > discussed because I must have missed it. > > sprio example: > > $ sprio -j 3402583,3425789,3438823 > JOBID PRIORITY AGE FAIRSHARE JOBSIZE PARTITION > 3402583 682609 10000 622540 70 50000 > 3425789 100320 10000 40250 70 50000 > 3438823 682609 10000 622540 70 50000 > > > sacct example: > > $ sacct -j3402583,3425789,3438823 -X --format JOBID,STATE,PRIORITY > JobID State Priority > ------------ ---------- ---------- > 3402583 PENDING 386956 > 3425789 PENDING 648990 > 3438823 PENDING 671665 > > Any idea why these priority numbers come out so differently? Is the sacct > priority a raw figure whereas sprio has been convolved with fairshare > factors? > > Thanks, Glen >
