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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:
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.