13 Job Statistics and Histories

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What types of historical information is available for my jobs?

Objectives

• Understand how to use seff and sacct

Use seff to view information about a particular job.

• seff usage: seff <jobid>
• requires jobid
• Get previous jobid from output file:
  ls
• Run seff with jobid.
  seff <jobid>

Use sacct to view more information for more jobs:\

sacct -u ${USER} -S 2022-06-17 -oUser,JobID,Jobname,partition,state,time,start,end,elapsed,MaxRss,MaxVMSize,nnodes,ncpus,CPUTime,nodelist

Key Points

• sacct shows details on memory utilization (MaxRSS), but only for completed jobs.