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Evan
Evan

Reputation: 1499

How to see where in the queue I am for a job on a cluster?

I am using a cluster computer to compute a "lmem" job. I submitted my job a day ago and while normally the job immediately begins running and I can monitor how long it has been running with qstat, this job remains in the queue.

I used qstat -q to see that

`Queue            Memory CPU Time Walltime Node  Run Que Lm  State
---------------- ------ -------- -------- ----  --- --- --  -----
lmem               --      --       --      --   36 235 --   E R
batch              --      --       --      --    8   0 --   E R
express             4gb    --    06:00:00   --   17   0 --   E R
test               --      --       --      --    0   0 --   D S
production         16gb    --       --      --   66 157 --   E R
route              --      --       --      --    0   0 --   E R`

Someone must have put in A LOT of lmem jobs. I was wondering if there was a way to see where on that list of 235 my job is in line?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 651

Answers (1)

clusterdude
clusterdude

Reputation: 622

When using a scheduler like Moab or Maui, you can run a commands such as checkjob -v and mdiag -p (or have an admin do it for you) to see if the job has an advance/priority/job reservation, and how many jobs it has in front of it. The default ordering of showq will place jobs with a job reservation at or near the top of the Eligible/Idle list. If you're only using pbs_sched, then the order shown in a plain qstat is the order in which it will run, although that may not make it clear how soon it can run.

Upvotes: 1

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