Hi, What about scontrol show job <jobID> to see various things like:
SubmitTime, EligibleTime, AccrueTime etc? David On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 4:53 AM Kevin Buckley <kevin.buck...@pawsey.org.au> wrote: > Hi there, > > we're hoping to overcome an issue where some of our users are keen > on writing their own meta-schedulers, so as to try and beat the > actual scheduler, but can't seemingly do as good a job as a scheduler > that's been developed by people who understand scheduling (no real > surprises there!), and so occasionally generate false perceptions of > our systems. > > One of the things our meta-scheduler writers seem unable to allow for, > is jobs that remain in a "completing" state, for whatever reason. > > Whilst we're not looking to provide succour to meta-scheduler writers, > we can see a need for some way to present and/or make use of, a > > "job has been in state S for time T" > > or > > "job entered current state at time T" > > info. > > > Can we access such a value from Slurm: rather, does Slurm keep track > of such a value, whether or not it can currently be accessed on the > "user-side" ? > > > What we're trying to avoid is the need to write a not-quite-Slurm > database that stores such info by continually polling our actual > Slurm database, because we don't think of ourselves as meta-scheduler > writers. > > Here's hoping, > Kevin > > -- > Supercomputing Systems Administrator > Pawsey Supercomputing Centre > > -- David Rhey --------------- Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services University of Michigan
