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user1251007
user1251007

Reputation: 16731

Modify attributes (including queue) of a pbs jobs

I want to change the attributes (walltime and queue) of several (idle) jobs scheduled on a cluster.

When I do (where 1234 is the job id):

qalter -l walltime=24:00:00 -q newQueue 1234

I get the following error:

qalter: illegally formed job identifier: newQueue

What can I do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 824

Answers (1)

user1251007
user1251007

Reputation: 16731

You need to do this in two steps:

  1. qalter to change the walltime

    qalter -l walltime=24:00:00 1234

  2. qmove to move the job to newQueue

    qmove newQueue 1234

This order might be important, if newQueue is restricted for a maximum walltime of 24 hours (and the jobs were scheduled for a longer maximum walltime before).

Upvotes: 1

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