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qstat

qstat is a scheduler command that displays the status of the queues.

Examples

Display your own jobs queued on the system

$ qstat

Show a specific running or queueing job’s details:

qstat -j jobid

Display all jobs queued on the system

$ qstat -u "*"

Display all jobs queued by the username foo1bar

$ qstat -u foo1bar

Display all jobs in the openmp parallel environment

$ qstat -pe openmp

Display all jobs in the queue named foobar

$ qstat -q foobar.q

Example output:

$ qstat -u "*"
job-ID  prior   name       user          state submit/start at     queue                              slots   ja-task-ID
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1234567 0.00000 INTERACTIV foo1bar       dr    12/24/2021 07:13:20 interactive.q@sharc-node004.sh     1
1234568 0.00000 job.sh     foo1bar       r     01/22/2022 05:37:31 all.q@sharc-node019.shef.ac.uk     16
1234569 0.00000 job.sh     foo1bar       r     01/23/2022 07:41:18 all.q@sharc-node084.shef.ac.uk     16
1234570 0.00000 job.sh     foo1bar       Rr    01/23/2022 08:03:22 all.q@sharc-node068.shef.ac.uk     16
1234571 0.00076 job.sh     foo1bar       qw    01/23/2022 07:06:18                                    1
1234572 0.00067 job.sh     foo1bar       hqw   01/23/2022 07:06:18                                    1
1234573 0.00000 job.sh     foo1bar       Eqw   01/21/2022 13:50:55                                    1
1234574 0.00000 job.sh     foo1bar       t     01/24/2022 13:04:25 all.q@sharc-node159.shef.ac.uk     1        22964

SGE Job States:

State

Explanation

SGE State Letter Code/s

Pending

pending, queued

qw

Pending

pending, user and/or system hold

hqw

Running

running

r

Error

all pending states with error

Eqw, Ehqw, EhRqw

Key: q: queueing, r: running, w: waiting, h: on hold, E: error, R: re-run, s: job suspended, S: queue suspended, t: transferring, d: deletion.

Note

A full list of SGE and DRMAA states can be found here