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sstat

sstat is a scheduler command used to display various status information about a running job/step.

Documentation

Documentation is available on the system using the command

$ man sstat

Usage

The sstat command can be used to display status information about a user’s currently running jobs such as the CPU usage, task or node information and memory consumption.

The command can be invoked as follows with a specific job ID:

$ sstat --jobs=job-id

And to display specific information you can use the --format flag to choose your output:

$ sstat --jobs=job-id --format=var_1,var_2, ... , var_N

A chart of some these variables are listed in the table below:

sstat format variable names

Variable	Description
AveCPU	Average (system + user) CPU time of all tasks in job.
AveRSS	Average resident set size of all tasks in job.
AveVMSize	Average Virtual Memory size of all tasks in job.
JobID	The id of the Job.
MaxRSS	Maximum resident set size of all tasks in job.
MaxVMSize	Maximum Virtual Memory size of all tasks in job.
NTasks	Total number of tasks in a job or step.

A full list of variables for the --format flag can be found with the --helpformat flag or by visiting the slurm page on sstat.