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NAME
sacct - displays accounting data for all jobs and job steps in the Slurm job accounting log or Slurm
database
SYNOPSIS
sacct [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
Accounting information for jobs invoked with Slurm are either logged in the job accounting log file or
saved to the Slurm database, as configured with the AccountingStorageType parameter.
The sacct command displays job accounting data stored in the job accounting log file or Slurm database in
a variety of forms for your analysis. The sacct command displays information on jobs, job steps, status,
and exitcodes by default. You can tailor the output with the use of the --format= option to specify the
fields to be shown.
Job records consist of a primary entry for the job as a whole as well as entries for job steps. The Job
Launch page has a more detailed description of each type of job step.
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/job_launch.html#job_record>
For the root user, the sacct command displays job accounting data for all users, although there are
options to filter the output to report only the jobs from a specified user or group.
For the non-root user, the sacct command limits the display of job accounting data to jobs that were
launched with their own user identifier (UID) by default. Data for other users can be displayed with the
--allusers, --user, or --uid options.
Elapsed time fields are presented as [days-]hours:minutes:seconds[.microseconds]. Only 'CPU' fields will
ever have microseconds.
The default input file is the file named in the AccountingStorageLoc parameter in slurm.conf.
NOTE: If designated, the slurmdbd.conf option PrivateData may further restrict the accounting data
visible to users which are not SlurmUser, root, or a user with AdminLevel=Admin. See the slurmdbd.conf
man page for additional details on restricting access to accounting data.
NOTE: The contents of Slurm's database are maintained in lower case. This may result in some sacct
output differing from that of other Slurm commands.
NOTE: Much of the data reported by sacct has been generated by the wait3() and getrusage() system calls.
Some systems gather and report incomplete information for these calls; sacct reports values of 0 for this
missing data. See your systems getrusage (3) man page for information about which data are actually
available on your system.
OPTIONS
-A, --accounts=<account_list>
Displays jobs when a comma separated list of accounts are given as the argument.
--array Expand job arrays. Display all array tasks on separate lines instead of displaying groups of
array tasks on single lines.
-L, --allclusters
Display jobs ran on all clusters. By default, only jobs ran on the cluster from where sacct is
called are displayed.
-X, --allocations
Only show statistics relevant to the job allocation itself, not taking steps into
consideration.
NOTE: Without including steps, utilization statistics for job allocation(s) will be reported as
zero.
-a, --allusers
Displays all users' jobs when run by user root or if PrivateData is not configured to jobs.
Otherwise display the current user's jobs
-x, --associations=<assoc_list>
Displays the statistics only for the jobs running under the association ids specified by the
assoc_list operand, which is a comma-separated list of association ids. Space characters are
not allowed in the assoc_list. Default is all associations.
-B, --batch-script
This option will print the batch script of job if the job used one. If the job didn't have a
script 'NONE' is output.
NOTE: AccountingStoreFlags=job_script is required for this.
NOTE: Requesting specific job(s) with '-j' is required for this.
-b, --brief
Displays a brief listing consisting of JobID, State, and ExitCode.
-M, --clusters=<cluster_list>
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started on the clusters specified by the cluster_list
operand, which is a comma-separated list of clusters. Space characters are not allowed in the
cluster_list. A value of 'all' will query to run on all clusters. The default is current
cluster you are executing the sacct command on or all clusters in the federation when executed
on a federated cluster. This option implicitly sets the --local option.
-c, --completion
Use job completion data instead of job accounting. The JobCompType parameter in the slurm.conf
file must be defined to a non-none option. Does not support federated cluster information
(local data only).
-C, --constraints=<constraint_list>
Comma separated list to filter jobs based on what constraints/features the job requested.
Multiple options will be treated as 'and' not 'or', so the job would need all constraints
specified to be returned not one or the other.
--delimiter=<characters>
ASCII characters used to separate the fields when specifying the -p or -P options. The default
delimiter is a '|'. This option is ignored if -p or -P options are not specified.
-D, --duplicates
If Slurm job ids are reset, some job numbers will probably appear more than once in the
accounting log file but refer to different jobs. Such jobs can be distinguished by the
"submit" time stamp in the data records.
When data for specific jobs are requested with the --jobs option, sacct returns the most recent
job with that number. This behavior can be overridden by specifying --duplicates, in which case
all records that match the selection criteria will be returned.
NOTE: Revoked federated sibling jobs are hidden unless the --duplicates option is specified.
-E, --endtime=<end_time>
Select jobs in any state before the specified time. If states are given with the -s option
return jobs in this state before this period. See the DEFAULT TIME WINDOW for more details.
Valid time formats are:
HH:MM[:SS][AM|PM]
MMDD[YY][-HH:MM[:SS]]
MM.DD[.YY][-HH:MM[:SS]]
MM/DD[/YY][-HH:MM[:SS]]
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]
today, midnight, noon, elevenses (11 AM), fika (3 PM), teatime (4 PM)
now[{+|-}count[seconds(default)|minutes|hours|days|weeks]]
--env-vars
This option will print the running environment of a batch job, otherwise 'NONE' is output.
NOTE: AccountingStoreFlags=job_env is required for this.
NOTE: Requesting specific job(s) with '-j' is required for this.
--expand-patterns
Expand any filename patterns from in StdOut, StdErr and StdIn. Fields that map to a range of
values will use the first value of the range. For example "%t" for task id will be replaced by
"0".
--federation
Show jobs from the federation if a member of one.
-f, --file=<file>
Causes the sacct command to read job accounting data from the named file instead of the current
Slurm job accounting log file. Only applicable when running the jobcomp/filetxt plugin. Setting
this flag implicitly enables the -c flag.
-F, --flags=<flag_list>
Comma separated list to filter jobs based on what various ways the jobs were handled. Current
flags are SchedSubmit, SchedMain, SchedBackfill and StartReceived. SchedSubmit, SchedMain,
SchedBackfill describe the scheduler that started the job.
-o, --format
Comma separated list of fields. (use "--helpformat" for a list of available fields).
NOTE: When using the format option for listing various fields you can put a %NUMBER afterwards
to specify how many characters should be printed.
e.g. format=name%30 will print 30 characters of field name right justified. A %-30 will print
30 characters left justified.
When set, the SACCT_FORMAT environment variable will override the default format. For example:
SACCT_FORMAT="jobid,user,account,cluster"
-g, --gid=, --group=<gid_or_group_list>
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started with the GID or the GROUP specified by the
gid_list or the group_list operand, which is a comma-separated list. Space characters are not
allowed. Default is no restrictions.
-h, --help
Displays a general help message.
-e, --helpformat
Print a list of fields that can be specified with the --format option.
Fields available:
Account AdminComment AllocCPUS AllocNodes
AllocTRES AssocID AveCPU AveCPUFreq
AveDiskRead AveDiskWrite AvePages AveRSS
AveVMSize BlockID Cluster Comment
Constraints ConsumedEnergy ConsumedEnergyRaw Container
CPUTime CPUTimeRAW DBIndex DerivedExitCode
Elapsed ElapsedRaw Eligible End
ExitCode FailedNode Flags GID
Group JobID JobIDRaw JobName
Layout MaxDiskRead MaxDiskReadNode MaxDiskReadTask
MaxDiskWrite MaxDiskWriteNode MaxDiskWriteTask MaxPages
MaxPagesNode MaxPagesTask MaxRSS MaxRSSNode
MaxRSSTask MaxVMSize MaxVMSizeNode MaxVMSizeTask
McsLabel MinCPU MinCPUNode MinCPUTask
NCPUS NNodes NodeList NTasks
Partition Planned PlannedCPU PlannedCPURAW
Priority QOS QOSRAW Reason
ReqCPUFreq ReqCPUFreqGov ReqCPUFreqMax ReqCPUFreqMin
ReqCPUS ReqMem ReqNodes ReqTRES
Reservation ReservationId Start State
StdErr StdIn StdOut Submit
SubmitLine Suspended SystemComment SystemCPU
Timelimit TimelimitRaw TotalCPU TRESUsageInAve
TRESUsageInMax TRESUsageInMaxNode TRESUsageInMaxTask TRESUsageInMin
TRESUsageInMinNode TRESUsageInMinTask TRESUsageInTot TRESUsageOutAve
TRESUsageOutMax TRESUsageOutMaxNode TRESUsageOutMaxTask TRESUsageOutMin
TRESUsageOutMinNode TRESUsageOutMinTask TRESUsageOutTot UID
User UserCPU WCKey WCKeyID
WorkDir
NOTE: When using with Ave[RSS|VM]Size or their values in TRESUsageIn[Ave|Tot]. They represent the
average/total of the highest watermarks over all ranks in the step. When using sstat they represent the
average/total at the moment the command was run.
NOTE: TRESUsage*Min* values represent the lowest highwater mark in the step.
NOTE: Availability of metrics rely on the jobacct_gather plugin used. For example the
jobacct_gather/cgroup in combination with cgroup/v2 does not provide Virtual Memory metrics due to
limitations in the kernel cgroups interfaces and will show a 0 for the related fields.
The section titled "Job Accounting Fields" describes these fields.
-j, --jobs=<job[.step]>
Displays information about the specified job[.step] or list of job[.step]s.
The job[.step] parameter is a comma-separated list of jobs. Space characters are not permitted
in this list.
NOTE: A step id of 'batch' will display the information about the batch step.
By default sacct shows only jobs with Eligible time, but with this option the non-eligible will
be also shown.
NOTE: If --state is also specified, as non-eligible are not PD, then non-eligible jobs will not
be displayed. See the DEFAULT TIME WINDOW for details about how this option changes the
default -S and -E options.
--json, --json=list, --json=<data_parser>
Dump job information as JSON using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with
parameters. Sorting and formatting arguments will be ignored.
--local Show only jobs local to this cluster. Ignore other clusters in this federation (if any).
Overrides --federation.
-l, --long
Equivalent to specifying:
--format=jobid,jobidraw,jobname,partition,maxvmsize,maxvmsizenode,
maxvmsizetask,avevmsize,maxrss,maxrssnode,maxrsstask,averss,maxpages,
maxpagesnode,maxpagestask,avepages,mincpu,mincpunode,mincputask,avecpu,ntasks,
alloccpus,elapsed,state,exitcode,avecpufreq,reqcpufreqmin,reqcpufreqmax,
reqcpufreqgov,reqmem,consumedenergy,maxdiskread,maxdiskreadnode,maxdiskreadtask,
avediskread,maxdiskwrite,maxdiskwritenode,maxdiskwritetask,avediskwrite,
reqtres,alloctres,tresusageinave,tresusageinmax,
tresusageinmaxn,tresusageinmaxt,tresusageinmin,tresusageinminn,tresusageinmint,
tresusageintot,tresusageoutmax,tresusageoutmaxn,
tresusageoutmaxt,tresusageoutave,tresusageouttot
--name=<jobname_list>
Display jobs that have any of these name(s).
-i, --nnodes=<min[-max]>
Return jobs that ran on the specified number of nodes.
-I, --ncpus=<min[-max]>
Return jobs that ran on the specified number of cpus.
--noconvert
Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to 2G).
-N, --nodelist=<node_list>
Display jobs that ran on any of these node(s). node_list can be a ranged string.
NOTE: This is not reliable when nodes are added or removed to Slurm while jobs are running.
Only jobs that started in the specified time range (-S, -E) will be returned.
-n, --noheader
No heading will be added to the output. The default action is to display a header.
-p, --parsable
Output will be '|' delimited with a '|' at the end. See also the --delimiter option.
-P, --parsable2
Output will be '|' delimited without a '|' at the end. See also the --delimiter option.
-r, --partition
Comma separated list of partitions to select jobs and job steps from. The default is all
partitions.
-q, --qos Only send data about jobs using these qos. Default is all.
-R, --reason=<reason_list>
Comma separated list to filter jobs based on what reason the job wasn't scheduled outside
resources/priority.
-S, --starttime
Select jobs in any state after the specified time. Default is 00:00:00 of the current day,
unless the '-s' or '-j' options are used. If the '-s' option is used, then the default is
'now'. If states are given with the '-s' option then only jobs in this state at this time will
be returned. If the '-j' option is used, then the default time is Unix Epoch 0. See the DEFAULT
TIME WINDOW for more details.
Valid time formats are:
HH:MM[:SS][AM|PM]
MMDD[YY][-HH:MM[:SS]]
MM.DD[.YY][-HH:MM[:SS]]
MM/DD[/YY][-HH:MM[:SS]]
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]
today, midnight, noon, elevenses (11 AM), fika (3 PM), teatime (4 PM)
now[{+|-}count[seconds(default)|minutes|hours|days|weeks]]
-s, --state=<state_list>
Selects jobs based on their state during the time period given. Unless otherwise specified,
the start and end time will be the current time when the --state option is specified and only
currently running jobs can be displayed. A start and/or end time must be specified to view
information about jobs not currently running. See the JOB STATE CODES section below for a list
of state designators. Multiple state names may be specified using comma separators. Either the
short or long form of the state name may be used (e.g. CA or CANCELLED) and the name is case
insensitive (i.e. ca and CA both work).
NOTE: Note for a job to be selected in the PENDING state it must have "EligibleTime" in the
requested time interval or different from "Unknown". The "EligibleTime" is displayed by the
"scontrol show job" command. For example jobs submitted with the "--hold" option will have
"EligibleTime=Unknown" as they are pending indefinitely.
NOTE: When specifying states and no start time is given the default start time is 'now'. This
is only when -j is not used. If -j is used the start time will default to 'Epoch'. In both
cases if no end time is given it will default to 'now'. See the DEFAULT TIME WINDOW for more
details.
-K, --timelimit-max
Ignored by itself, but if timelimit_min is set this will be the maximum timelimit of the range.
Default is no restriction.
-k, --timelimit-min
Only send data about jobs with this timelimit. If used with timelimit_max this will be the
minimum timelimit of the range. Default is no restriction.
-T, --truncate
Truncate time. So if a job started before --starttime the start time would be truncated to
--starttime. The same for end time and --endtime.
-u, --uid=, --user=<uid_or_user_list>
Use this comma separated list of UIDs or user names to select jobs to display. By default, the
running user's UID is used.
--units=[KMGTP]
Display values in specified unit type. Takes precedence over --noconvert option.
--usage Display a command usage summary.
--use-local-uid
When displaying UID, sacct uses the UID stored in Slurm's accounting database by default. Use
this command to make Slurm use a system call to get the UID from the username. This option may
be useful in an environment with multiple clusters and one database where the UIDs aren't the
same on all clusters.
-v, --verbose
Primarily for debugging purposes, report the state of various variables during processing.
-V, --version
Print version.
-W, --wckeys=<wckey_list>
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started on the wckeys specified by the wckey_list
operand, which is a comma-separated list of wckey names. Space characters are not allowed in
the wckey_list. Default is all wckeys.
--whole-hetjob[=yes|no]
When querying and filtering heterogeneous jobs with --jobs, Slurm will default to retrieving
information about all the components of the job if the het_job_id (leader id) is selected. If a
non-leader heterogeneous job component id is selected then only that component is retrieved by
default. This behavior can be changed by using this option. If set to 'yes' (or no argument),
then information about all the components will be retrieved no matter which component is
selected in the job filter. If set to 'no' then only the selected heterogeneous job
component(s) will be retrieved, even when selecting the leader.
--yaml, --yaml=list, --yaml=<data_parser>
Dump job information as YAML using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with
parameters. Sorting and formatting arguments will be ignored.
Job Accounting Fields
Descriptions of each job accounting field can be found below. Note that the Ave*, Max* and Min*
accounting fields look at the values for all the tasks of each step in a job and return the average,
maximum or minimum values for the job step.
ALL Print all fields listed below.
Account Account the job ran under.
AdminComment
A comment string on a job that must be set by an administrator, the SlurmUser or root.
AllocCPUs Count of allocated CPUs. Equivalent to NCPUS.
AllocNodes
Number of nodes allocated to the job/step. 0 if the job is pending.
AllocTres Trackable resources. These are the resources allocated to the job/step after the job
started running. For pending jobs this should be blank. For more details see
AccountingStorageTRES in slurm.conf.
NOTE: When a generic resource is configured with the no_consume flag, the allocation
will be printed with a zero.
AssocID Reference to the association of user, account and cluster.
AveCPU Average (system + user) CPU time of all tasks in job.
AveCPUFreq
Average weighted CPU frequency of all tasks in job, in kHz.
AveDiskRead
Average number of bytes read by all tasks in job.
AveDiskWrite
Average number of bytes written by all tasks in job.
AvePages Average number of page faults 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.
BlockID The name of the block to be used (used with Blue Gene systems).
Cluster Cluster name.
Comment The job's comment string when the AccountingStoreFlags parameter in the slurm.conf file
contains 'job_comment'. The Comment string can be modified by invoking sacctmgr modify
job or the specialized sjobexitmod command.
Constraints
Feature(s) the job requested as a constraint.
ConsumedEnergy
Total energy consumed by all tasks in a job, in joules. Value may include a unit prefix
(K,M,G,T,P). Note: Only in the case of an exclusive job allocation does this value
reflect the job's real energy consumption.
ConsumedEnergyRaw
Total energy consumed by all tasks in a job, in joules. Note: Only in the case of an
exclusive job allocation does this value reflect the job's real energy consumption.
Container Path to OCI Container Bundle requested.
CPUTime Time used (Elapsed time * CPU count) by a job or step in HH:MM:SS format.
CPUTimeRAW
Time used (Elapsed time * CPU count) by a job or step in cpu-seconds.
DBIndex Unique database index for entries in the job table.
DerivedExitCode
The highest exit code returned by the job's job steps (srun invocations). Following the
colon is the signal that caused the process to terminate if it was terminated by a
signal. The DerivedExitCode can be modified by invoking sacctmgr modify job or the
specialized sjobexitmod command.
Elapsed The job's elapsed time.
The format of this field's output is as follows:
[DD-[HH:]]MM:SS
as defined by the following:
DD days
hh hours
mm minutes
ss seconds
ElapsedRaw
The job's elapsed time in seconds.
Eligible When the job became eligible to run. In the same format as End.
End Termination time of the job. The output is of the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, unless
changed through the SLURM_TIME_FORMAT environment variable.
ExitCode The exit code returned by the job script or salloc, typically as set by the exit()
function. Following the colon is the signal that caused the process to terminate if it
was terminated by a signal.
Extra The job's extra string when the AccountingStoreFlags parameter in the slurm.conf file
contains 'job_extra'. The Extra string can be modified by invoking sacctmgr modify job
command.
FailedNode
The name of the node whose failure caused the job to be killed.
Flags Job flags. Current flags are SchedSubmit, SchedMain, SchedBackfill.
GID The group identifier of the user who ran the job.
Group The group name of the user who ran the job.
JobID The identification number of the job or job step.
Regular jobs are in the form:
JobID[.JobStep]
Array jobs are in the form:
ArrayJobID_ArrayTaskID
Heterogeneous jobs are in the form:
HetJobID+HetJobOffset
When printing job arrays, performance of the command can be measurably improved for
systems with large numbers of jobs when a single job ID is specified. By default, this
field size will be limited to 64 bytes. Use the environment variable SLURM_BITSTR_LEN to
specify larger field sizes.
JobIDRaw The identification number of the job or job step. Prints the JobID in the form
JobID[.JobStep] for regular, heterogeneous and array jobs.
JobName The name of the job or job step. The slurm_accounting.log file is a space delimited
file. Because of this if a space is used in the jobname an underscore is substituted for
the space before the record is written to the accounting file. So when the jobname is
displayed by sacct the jobname that had a space in it will now have an underscore in
place of the space.
Layout What the layout of a step was when it was running. This can be used to give you an idea
of which node ran which rank in your job.
MaxDiskRead
Maximum number of bytes read by all tasks in job.
MaxDiskReadNode
The node on which the maxdiskread occurred.
MaxDiskReadTask
The task ID where the maxdiskread occurred.
MaxDiskWrite
Maximum number of bytes written by all tasks in job.
MaxDiskWriteNode
The node on which the maxdiskwrite occurred.
MaxDiskWriteTask
The task ID where the maxdiskwrite occurred.
MaxPages Maximum number of page faults of all tasks in job.
MaxPagesNode
The node on which the maxpages occurred.
MaxPagesTask
The task ID where the maxpages occurred.
MaxRSS Maximum resident set size of all tasks in job.
MaxRSSNode
The node on which the maxrss occurred.
MaxRSSTask
The task ID where the maxrss occurred.
MaxVMSize Maximum Virtual Memory size of all tasks in job.
MaxVMSizeNode
The node on which the maxvmsize occurred.
MaxVMSizeTask
The task ID where the maxvmsize occurred.
MCSLabel Multi-Category Security (MCS) label associated with the job. Added to a job when the
MCSPlugin is enabled in the slurm.conf.
MinCPU Minimum (system + user) CPU time of all tasks in job.
MinCPUNode
The node on which the mincpu occurred.
MinCPUTask
The task ID where the mincpu occurred.
NCPUS Total number of CPUs allocated to the job. Equivalent to AllocCPUS.
NNodes Number of nodes in a job or step. If the job is running, or ran, this count will be the
number allocated, else the number will be the number requested.
NodeList List of nodes in job/step.
NTasks Total number of tasks in a job or step.
Partition Identifies the partition on which the job ran.
Planned How much wall clock time was used as planned time for this job. This is derived from how
long a job was waiting from eligible time to when it started or was cancelled. Format is
the same as Elapsed.
PlannedCPU
How many CPU seconds were used as planned time for this job. Format is the same as
Elapsed.
PlannedCPURAW
How many CPU seconds were used as planned time for this job. Format is in processor
seconds.
Priority Slurm priority.
QOS Name of Quality of Service.
QOSRAW Numeric id of Quality of Service.
Reason The last reason a job was blocked from running for something other than Priority or
Resources. This will be saved in the database even if the job ran to completion.
ReqCPUFreq
Requested CPU frequency for the step, in kHz. Note: This value applies only to a job
step. No value is reported for the job.
ReqCPUFreqGov
Requested CPU frequency governor for the step, in kHz. Note: This value applies only to
a job step. No value is reported for the job.
ReqCPUFreqMax
Maximum requested CPU frequency for the step, in kHz. Note: This value applies only to
a job step. No value is reported for the job.
ReqCPUFreqMin
Minimum requested CPU frequency for the step, in kHz. Note: This value applies only to
a job step. No value is reported for the job.
ReqCPUS Number of requested CPUs.
ReqMem Minimum required memory for the job. It may have a letter appended to it indicating
units (M for megabytes, G for gigabytes, etc.). Note: This value is only from the job
allocation, not the step.
ReqNodes Requested minimum Node count for the job/step.
ReqTres Trackable resources. These are the minimum resource counts requested by the job/step at
submission time. For more details see AccountingStorageTRES in slurm.conf.
Reservation
Reservation Name.
ReservationId
Reservation Id.
Start Initiation time of the job. In the same format as End.
State Displays the job status, or state. See the JOB STATE CODES section below for a list of
possible states.
If more information is available on the job state than will fit into the current field
width (for example, the UID that CANCELLED a job) the state will be followed by a "+".
You can increase the size of the displayed state using the "%NUMBER" format modifier
described earlier.
NOTE: The RUNNING state will return suspended jobs as well. In order to print suspended
jobs you must request SUSPENDED at a different call from RUNNING.
NOTE: The RUNNING state will return any jobs completed (cancelled or otherwise) in the
time period requested as the job was also RUNNING during that time. If you are only
looking for jobs that finished, please choose the appropriate state(s) without the
RUNNING state.
StdErr Display the "filename pattern" for stderr redirection specified in a batch job. Path
wildcards will not be substituted and will be shown as defined in the original batch
submission.
StdIn Display the "filename pattern" for stdin redirection specified in a batch job. Path
wildcards will not be substituted and will be shown as defined in the original batch
submission.
StdOut Display the "filename pattern" for stdout redirection specified in a batch job. Path
wildcards will not be substituted and will be shown as defined in the original batch
submission.
Submit The time the job was submitted. In the same format as End.
NOTE: If a job is requeued, the submit time is reset. To obtain the original submit time
it is necessary to use the -D or --duplicate option to display all duplicate entries for
a job.
SubmitLine
The full command issued to submit the job.
Suspended The amount of time a job or job step was suspended. Format is the same as Elapsed.
SystemComment
The job's comment string that is typically set by a plugin. Can only be modified by a
Slurm administrator.
SystemCPU The amount of system CPU time used by the job or job step. Format is the same as
Elapsed.
NOTE: See the note for TotalCPU for information about how canceled jobs are handled.
Timelimit What the timelimit was/is for the job. Format is the same as Elapsed, but two additional
special values can be displayed:
Partition_limit
Indicates that the job did not have its time limit set and was not yet subjected
to a partition MaxTime (i.e. job is pending). You can define the DefaultTime on
the partition to avoid seeing this value.
UNLIMITED
Indicates the job did not have a time limit defined.
TimelimitRaw
What the timelimit was/is for the job. Format is in number of minutes. NOTE: See
TimeLimit description.
TotalCPU The sum of the SystemCPU and UserCPU time used by the job or job step. The total CPU
time of the job may exceed the job's elapsed time for jobs that include multiple job
steps. Format is the same as Elapsed.
NOTE: For the steps interrupted by signal (e.g. scancel, job timeout) TotalCPU provides
a measure of the task's parent process and may not include CPU time of child processes.
This is a result of wait3 resource usage (getrusage) internals. For processes
completing in regular way all the descendant processes (forks and execs) resources are
included. However, if the processes are killed the result may differ between proctrack
plugins and end-user applications.
TresUsageInAve
Tres average usage in by all tasks in job. NOTE: If corresponding TresUsageInMaxTask is
-1 the metric is node centric instead of task.
TresUsageInMax
Tres maximum usage in by all tasks in job. NOTE: If corresponding TresUsageInMaxTask is
-1 the metric is node centric instead of task.
TresUsageInMaxNode
Node for which each maximum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageInMaxTask
Task for which each maximum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageInMin
Tres minimum usage in by all tasks in job. NOTE: If corresponding TresUsageInMinTask is
-1 the metric is node centric instead of task.
TresUsageInMinNode
Node for which each minimum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageInMinTask
Task for which each minimum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageInTot
Tres total usage in by all tasks in job.
TresUsageOutAve
Tres average usage out by all tasks in job. NOTE: If corresponding TresUsageOutMaxTask
is -1 the metric is node centric instead of task.
TresUsageOutMax
Tres maximum usage out by all tasks in job. NOTE: If corresponding TresUsageOutMaxTask
is -1 the metric is node centric instead of task.
TresUsageOutMaxNode
Node for which each maximum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageOutMaxTask
Task for which each maximum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageOutMin
Tres minimum usage out by all tasks in job.
TresUsageOutMinNode
Node for which each minimum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageOutMinTask
Task for which each minimum TRES usage out occurred.
TresUsageOutTot
Tres total usage out by all tasks in job.
UID The user identifier of the user who ran the job.
User The user name of the user who ran the job.
UserCPU The amount of user CPU time used by the job or job step. Format is the same as Elapsed.
NOTE: See the note for TotalCPU for information about how canceled jobs are handled.
WCKey Workload Characterization Key. Arbitrary string for grouping orthogonal accounts
together.
WCKeyID Reference to the wckey.
WorkDir The directory used by the job to execute commands.
JOB STATE CODES
BF BOOT_FAIL Job terminated due to launch failure, typically due to a hardware failure (e.g.
unable to boot the node or block and the job can not be requeued).
CA CANCELLED Job was explicitly cancelled by the user or system administrator. The job may or may
not have been initiated.
CD COMPLETED Job has terminated all processes on all nodes with an exit code of zero.
DL DEADLINE Job terminated on deadline.
F FAILED Job terminated with non-zero exit code or other failure condition.
NF NODE_FAIL Job terminated due to failure of one or more allocated nodes.
OOM OUT_OF_MEMORY Job experienced out of memory error.
PD PENDING Job is awaiting resource allocation.
PR PREEMPTED Job terminated due to preemption.
R RUNNING Job currently has an allocation.
RQ REQUEUED Job was requeued.
RS RESIZING Job is about to change size.
RV REVOKED Sibling was removed from cluster due to other cluster starting the job.
S SUSPENDED Job has an allocation, but execution has been suspended and CPUs have been released
for other jobs.
TO TIMEOUT Job terminated upon reaching its time limit.
DEFAULT TIME WINDOW
The options --starttime and --endtime define the time window between which sacct is going to search. For
historical and practical reasons their default values (i.e. the default time window) depends on other
options: --jobs and --state.
Depending on if --jobs and/or --state are specified, the default values of --starttime and --endtime
options are:
WITHOUT EITHER --jobs NOR --state specified:
--starttime defaults to Midnight.
--endtime defaults to Now.
WITH --jobs AND WITHOUT --state specified:
--starttime defaults to Epoch 0.
--endtime defaults to Now.
WITHOUT --jobs AND WITH --state specified:
--starttime defaults to Now.
--endtime defaults to --starttime and to Now if --starttime is not specified.
WITH BOTH --jobs AND --state specified:
--starttime defaults to Epoch 0.
--endtime defaults to --starttime or to Now if --starttime is not specified.
NOTE: With -v/--verbose a message about the actual time window in use is shown.
PERFORMANCE
Executing sacct sends a remote procedure call to slurmdbd. If enough calls from sacct or other Slurm
client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmdbd daemon come in at once, it can result in
a degradation of performance of the slurmdbd daemon, possibly resulting in a denial of service.
Do not run sacct or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to slurmdbd from loops
in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls to sacct to the minimum necessary
for the information you are trying to gather.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Some sacct options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their
corresponding options, are listed below. (Note: Command line options will always override these
settings.)
SACCT_FEDERATION Same as --federation
SACCT_FORMAT Allows you to define the columns to display in the output. Same as --format
SACCT_LOCAL Same as --local
SLURM_BITSTR_LEN Specifies the string length to be used for holding a job array's task ID expression.
The default value is 64 bytes. A value of 0 will print the full expression with any
length required. Larger values may adversely impact the application performance.
SLURM_CONF The location of the Slurm configuration file.
SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS Specify debug flags for sacct to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page
for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting
in the slurm.conf.
SLURM_TIME_FORMAT Specify the format used to report time stamps. A value of standard, the default
value, generates output in the form "year-month-dateThour:minute:second". A value of
relative returns only "hour:minute:second" if the current day. For other dates in
the current year it prints the "hour:minute" preceded by "Tomorr" (tomorrow),
"Ystday" (yesterday), the name of the day for the coming week (e.g. "Mon", "Tue",
etc.), otherwise the date (e.g. "25 Apr"). For other years it returns a date month
and year without a time (e.g. "6 Jun 2012"). All of the time stamps use a 24 hour
format.
A valid strftime() format can also be specified. For example, a value of "%a %T" will
report the day of the week and a time stamp (e.g. "Mon 12:34:56").
EXAMPLES
This example illustrates the default invocation of the sacct command:
# sacct
Jobid Jobname Partition Account AllocCPUS State ExitCode
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- --------
2 script01 srun acct1 1 RUNNING 0
3 script02 srun acct1 1 RUNNING 0
4 endscript srun acct1 1 RUNNING 0
4.0 srun acct1 1 COMPLETED 0
This example shows the same job accounting information with the brief option.
# sacct --brief
Jobid State ExitCode
---------- ---------- --------
2 RUNNING 0
3 RUNNING 0
4 RUNNING 0
4.0 COMPLETED 0
# sacct --allocations
Jobid Jobname Partition Account AllocCPUS State ExitCode
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ---------- --------
3 sja_init andy acct1 1 COMPLETED 0
4 sjaload andy acct1 2 COMPLETED 0
5 sja_scr1 andy acct1 1 COMPLETED 0
6 sja_scr2 andy acct1 18 COMPLETED 2
7 sja_scr3 andy acct1 18 COMPLETED 0
8 sja_scr5 andy acct1 2 COMPLETED 0
9 sja_scr7 andy acct1 90 COMPLETED 1
10 endscript andy acct1 186 COMPLETED 0
This example demonstrates the ability to customize the output of the sacct command. The fields are
displayed in the order designated on the command line.
# sacct --format=jobid,elapsed,ncpus,ntasks,state
Jobid Elapsed Ncpus Ntasks State
---------- ---------- ---------- -------- ----------
3 00:01:30 2 1 COMPLETED
3.0 00:01:30 2 1 COMPLETED
4 00:00:00 2 2 COMPLETED
4.0 00:00:01 2 2 COMPLETED
5 00:01:23 2 1 COMPLETED
5.0 00:01:31 2 1 COMPLETED
This example demonstrates the use of the -T (--truncate) option when used with -S (--starttime) and -E
(--endtime). When the -T option is used, the start time of the job will be the specified -S value if the
job was started before the specified time, otherwise the time will be the job's start time. The end time
will be the specified -E option if the job ends after the specified time, otherwise it will be the jobs
end time.
Without -T (normal operation) sacct output would be like this.
# sacct -S2014-07-03-11:40 -E2014-07-03-12:00 -X -ojobid,start,end,state
JobID Start End State
--------- --------------------- -------------------- ------------
2 2014-07-03T11:33:16 2014-07-03T11:59:01 COMPLETED
3 2014-07-03T11:35:21 Unknown RUNNING
4 2014-07-03T11:35:21 2014-07-03T11:45:21 COMPLETED
5 2014-07-03T11:41:01 Unknown RUNNING
By adding the -T option the job's start and end times are truncated to reflect only the time requested.
If a job started after the start time requested or finished before the end time requested those times are
not altered. The -T option is useful when determining exact run times during any given period.
# sacct -T -S2014-07-03-11:40 -E2014-07-03-12:00 -X -ojobid,jobname,user,start,end,state
JobID Start End State
--------- --------------------- -------------------- ------------
2 2014-07-03T11:40:00 2014-07-03T11:59:01 COMPLETED
3 2014-07-03T11:40:00 2014-07-03T12:00:00 RUNNING
4 2014-07-03T11:40:00 2014-07-03T11:45:21 COMPLETED
5 2014-07-03T11:41:01 2014-07-03T12:00:00 RUNNING
NOTE: If no -s (--state) option is given sacct will display eligible jobs during the specified period of
time, otherwise it will return jobs that were in the state requested during that period of time.
This example demonstrates the differences running sacct with and without the --state flag for the same
time period. Without the --state option, all eligible jobs in that time period are shown.
# sacct -S11:20:00 -E11:25:00 -X -ojobid,start,end,state
JobID Start End State
------------ ------------------- ------------------- ----------
2955 11:15:12 11:20:12 COMPLETED
2956 11:20:13 11:25:13 COMPLETED
With the --state=pending option, only job 2956 will be shown because it had a dependency on 2955 and was
still PENDING from 11:20:00 until it started at 11:21:13. Note that even though we requested PENDING
jobs, the State shows as COMPLETED because that is the current State of the job.
# sacct --state=pending -S11:20:00 -E11:25:00 -X -ojobid,start,end,state
JobID Start End State
------------ ------------------- ------------------- ----------
2956 11:20:13 11:25:13 COMPLETED
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence Livermore National Security. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
Copyright (C) 2010-2022 SchedMD LLC.
This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.
Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.
FILES
/etc/slurm.conf
Entries to this file enable job accounting and designate the job accounting log file that
collects system job accounting.
/var/log/slurm_accounting.log
The default job accounting log file. By default, this file is set to read and write permission
for root only.
SEE ALSO
sstat(1), ps (1), srun(1), squeue(1), getrusage (2), time (2)
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