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SACCT(1) Slurm components SACCT(1)

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.
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.
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.
Note:
If the AccountingStorageType is set to "accounting_storage/filetxt", space characters embedded within account names, job names, and step names will be replaced by underscores. If account names with embedded spaces are needed, it is recommended that a database type of accounting storage be configured.
Note:
The content's 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.
If --dump is specified, the field selection options (--brief, --format, ...) have no effect.
Elapsed time fields are presented as 2 fields, integral seconds and integral microseconds
If --dump is not specified, elapsed time fields are presented as [[days-]hours:]minutes:seconds.hundredths.
The default input file is the file named in the AccountingStorageLoc parameter in slurm.conf.
 

OPTIONS

-a, --allusers
Displays all users jobs when run by user root or if PrivateData is not configurred to jobs. Otherwise display the current user's jobs
 
-A account_list , --accounts =account_list
Displays jobs when a comma separated list of accounts are given as the argument.
 
-b, --brief
Displays a brief listing, which includes the following data:
jobid
status
exitcode
This option has no effect when the ---dump option is also specified.
 
-c, --completion
Use job completion instead of job accounting. The JobCompType parameter in the slurm.conf file must be defined to a non-none option.
 
 
-d, --dump
Dumps the raw data records.
 
The section titled "INTERPRETING THE --dump OPTION OUTPUT" describes the data output when this option is used.
 
--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.
 
-e, --helpformat
Print a list of fields that can be specified with the --format option.
Fields available:


AllocCPUS       Account       AssocID       AveCPU
AvePages        AveRSS        AveVMSize     BlockID
Cluster         Comment       CPUTime       CPUTimeRAW
DerivedExitCode Elapsed       Eligible      End
ExitCode        GID           Group         JobID
JobName         Layout        MaxPages      MaxPagesNode
MaxPagesTask    MaxRSS        MaxRSSNode    MaxRSSTask
MaxVMSize       MaxVMSizeNode MaxVMSizeTask MinCPU
MinCPUNode      MinCPUTask    NCPUS         NNodes
NodeList        NTasks        Priority      Partition
QOS             QOSRAW        ReqCPUS       Reserved
ResvCPU         ResvCPURAW    Start         State
Submit          Suspended     SystemCPU     Timelimit
TotalCPU        UID           User          UserCPU
WCKey           WCKeyID
The section titled "Job Accounting Fields" describes these fields.
 
-E end_time, --endtime =end_time
Select jobs eligible before time. If states are given with the -s option return jobs in this state before this period.
 
Valid time formats are...
 
HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
 
MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
 
MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
 
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]
 
-f file, --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 filetxt plugin.
 
-g gid_list, --gid=gid_list --group= group_list
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started with the GID or the GROUP specified by the gid_list or thegroup_list operand, which is a comma-separated list. Space characters are not allowed. Default is no restrictions..
 
-h, --help
Displays a general help message.
 
-j job(.step) , --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. The batch step information is only available after the batch job is complete unlike regular steps which are available when they start.
The default is to display information on all jobs.
 
-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.
 
-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.
 
-l, --long
Equivalent to specifying:
--format=jobid,jobname,partition,maxvmsize,maxvmsizenode,maxvmsizetask,avevmsize,maxrss,maxrssnode,maxrsstask,averss,maxpages,maxpagesnode,maxpagestask,avepages,mincpu,mincpunode,mincputask,avecpu,ntasks,alloccpus,elapsed,state,exitcode
 
-L, --allclusters
Display jobs ran on all clusters. By default, only jobs ran on the cluster from where sacct is called are displayed.
 
-M cluster_list, --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. Use -1 for all clusters. The default is current cluster you are executing the sacct command on.
 
-n, --noheader
No heading will be added to the output. The default action is to display a header.
This option has no effect when used with the --dump option.
 
-N node_list, --nodelist=node_list
Display jobs that ran on any of these node(s). node_list can be a ranged string.
 
-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.
 
-O, --formatted_dump
Dumps accounting records in an easy-to-read format.
This option is provided for debugging.
 
-p, --parsable
output will be '|' delimited with a '|' at the end
 
-P, --parsable2
output will be '|' delimited without a '|' at the end
 
-q, --qos
Only send data about jobs using these qos. Default is all.
 
-r, --partition
 
Comma separated list of partitions to select jobs and job steps from. The default is all partitions.
 
-s state_list , --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. The following state designators are valid and 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 the the name is case insensitive (e.g. ca and CA both work).
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.
CF CONFIGURING
Job has been allocated resources, but are waiting for them to become ready for use (e.g. booting).
CG COMPLETING
Job is in the process of completing. Some processes on some nodes may still be active.
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.
PD PENDING
Job is awaiting resource allocation.
PR PREEMPTED
Job terminated due to preemption.
R RUNNING
Job currently has an allocation.
RS RESIZING
Job is about to change size.
S SUSPENDED
Job has an allocation, but execution has been suspended.
TO TIMEOUT
Job terminated upon reaching its time limit.
The state_list operand is a comma-separated list of these state designators. Space characters are not allowed in the state_list
 
NOTE: When specifying states and no start time is given the default starttime is 'now'. .
 
-S, --starttime
Select jobs eligible after the specified time. Default is midnight of current day. If states are given with the -s option then return jobs in this state at this time, 'now' is also used as the default time.
 
Valid time formats are...
 
HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
 
MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
 
MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
 
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]
 
-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_list, --uid=uid_list, --user= 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.
 
--usage
Display a command usage summary.
 
-v, --verbose
Primarily for debugging purposes, report the state of various variables during processing.
 
-V, --version
Print version.
 
-W wckey_list, --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.
 
-x associd_list, --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.
 
-X, --allocations
Only show cumulative statistics for each job, not the intermediate steps.
 

Job Accounting Fields

The following describes each job accounting field:
alloccpus
Count of allocated processors.
 
account
Account the job ran under.
 
associd
Reference to the association of user, account and cluster.
 
AveCPU
Average (system + user) CPU time of 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
Block ID, applicable to BlueGene computers only.
 
cluster
Cluster name.
 
Comment
The job's comment string when the AccountingStoreJobComment parameter in the slurm.conf file is set (or defaults) to YES. The Comment string can be modified by invoking sacctmgr modify job or the specialized sjobexitmod command.
 
cputime
Formatted number of cpu seconds a process was allocated.
 
cputimeraw
How much cpu time process was allocated in second format, not formatted like above.
 
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 jobs elapsed time.
The format of this fields output is as follows:
[DD-[hh:]]mm:ss
as defined by the following:
DD
days
hh
hours
mm
minutes
ss
seconds
 
eligible
When the job became eligible to run.
 
end
Termination time of the job. Format output is as follows:
MM/DD-hh:mm:ss
as defined by the following:
MM
month
DD
day
hh
hours
mm
minutes
ss
seconds
 
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.
 
gid
The group identifier of the user who ran the job.
 
group
The group name of the user who ran the job.
 
JobID
The number of the job or job step. It is in the form: job.jobstep.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
nodelist
List of nodes in job/step.
 
nnodes
Number of nodes in a job or step.
 
NTasks
Total number of tasks in a job or step.
 
priority
Slurm priority.
 
partition
Identifies the partition on which the job ran.
 
qos
Name of Quality of Service.
 
qosraw
Id of Quality of Service.
 
reqcpus
Required CPUs.
 
reserved
How much wall clock time was used as reserved time for this job. This is derived from how long a job was waiting from eligible time to when it actually started.
 
resvcpu
Formatted time for how long (cpu secs) a job was reserved for.
 
resvcpuraw
Reserved CPUs in second format, not formatted.
 
start
Initiation time of the job in the same format as end.
 
state
Displays the job status, or state.
 
Output can be RUNNING, RESIZING, SUSPENDED, COMPLETED, CANCELLED, FAILED, TIMEOUT, PREEMPTED or NODE_FAIL. 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.
 
submit
The time and date stamp (in Universal Time Coordinated, UTC) the job was submitted. The format of the output is identical to that of the end field.
 
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.
 
suspended
How long the job was suspended for.
 
SystemCPU
The amount of system CPU time used by the job or job step. The format of the output is identical to that of the elapsed field.
 
NOTE: SystemCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process and does not include CPU time of child processes.
 
timelimit
What the timelimit was/is for the job.
 
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. The format of the output is identical to that of the elapsed field.
 
NOTE: TotalCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process and does not include CPU time of child processes.
 
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. The format of the output is identical to that of the elapsed field.
 
NOTE: UserCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process and does not include CPU time of child processes.
 
wckey
Workload Characterization Key. Arbitrary string for grouping orthogonal accounts together.
 
wckeyid
Reference to the wckey.
 

INTERPRETING THE -DUMP OPTION OUTPUT

The sacct command's --dump option displays data in a horizontal list of fields depending on the record type. There are three record types: JOB_START, JOB_STEP, and JOB_TERMINATED. There is a subsection that describes the output for each record type.
When the data output is a job accounting field, as described in the section titled "Job Accounting Fields", only the name of the job accounting field is listed. Otherwise, additional information is provided.
Note:
The output for the JOB_STEP and JOB_TERMINATED record types present a pair of fields for the following data: Total CPU time, Total User CPU time, and Total System CPU time. The first field of each pair is the time in seconds expressed as an integer. The second field of each pair is the fractional number of seconds multiplied by one million. Thus, a pair of fields output as "1 024315" means that the time is 1.024315 seconds. The least significant digits in the second field are truncated in formatted displays.

Output for the JOB_START Record Type

The following describes the horizontal fields output by the sacct --dump option for the JOB_START record type.
Field #
Field
1
job
2
partition
3
submitted
4
The jobs start time; this value is the number of non-leap seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)
5
uid.gid
6
(Reserved)
7
JOB_START (literal string)
8
Job Record Version (1)
9
The number of fields in the record (16)
10
uid
11
gid
12
The job name
13
Batch Flag (0=no batch)
14
Relative SLURM priority
15
ncpus
16
nodes

Output for the JOB_STEP Record Type

The following describes the horizontal fields output by the sacct --dump option for the JOB_STEP record type.
Field #
Field
1
job
2
partition
3
submitted
4
The jobs start time; this value is the number of non-leap seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)
5
uid.gid
6
(Reserved)
7
JOB_STEP (literal string)
8
Job Record Version (1)
9
The number of fields in the record (38)
10
jobid
11
end
12
Completion Status; the mnemonics, which may appear in uppercase or lowercase, are as follows:
CA
Cancelled
CD
Completed successfully
F
Failed
NF
Job terminated from node failure
R
Running
S
Suspended
TO
Timed out
13
exitcode
14
ntasks
15
ncpus
16
elapsed time in seconds expressed as an integer
17
Integer portion of the Total CPU time in seconds for all processes
18
Fractional portion of the Total CPU time for all processes expressed in microseconds
19
Integer portion of the Total User CPU time in seconds for all processes
20
Fractional portion of the Total User CPU time for all processes expressed in microseconds
21
Integer portion of the Total System CPU time in seconds for all processes
22
Fractional portion of the Total System CPU time for all processes expressed in microseconds
23
rss
24
ixrss
25
idrss
26
isrss
27
minflt
28
majflt
29
nswap
30
inblocks
31
outblocks
32
msgsnd
33
msgrcv
34
nsignals
35
nvcsw
36
nivcsw
37
vsize

Output for the JOB_TERMINATED Record Type

The following describes the horizontal fields output by the sacct --dump option for the JOB_TERMINATED (literal string) record type.
Field #
Field
1
job
2
partition
3
submitted
4
The jobs start time; this value is the number of non-leap seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)
5
uid.gid
6
(Reserved)
7
JOB_TERMINATED (literal string)
8
Job Record Version (1)
9
The number of fields in the record (38)
Although thirty-eight fields are displayed by the sacct command for the JOB_TERMINATED record, only fields 1 through 12 are recorded in the actual data file. The sacct command aggregates the remainder.
10
The total elapsed time in seconds for the job.
11
end
12
Completion Status; the mnemonics, which may appear in uppercase or lowercase, are as follows:
CA
Cancelled
CD
Completed successfully
F
Failed
NF
Job terminated from node failure
R
Running
TO
Timed out
13
exitcode
14
ntasks
15
ncpus
16
elapsed time in seconds expressed as an integer
17
Integer portion of the Total CPU time in seconds for all processes
18
Fractional portion of the Total CPU time for all processes expressed in microseconds
19
Integer portion of the Total User CPU time in seconds for all processes
20
Fractional portion of the Total User CPU time for all processes expressed in microseconds
21
Integer portion of the Total System CPU time in seconds for all processes
22
Fractional portion of the Total System CPU time for all processes expressed in microseconds
23
rss
24
ixrss
25
idrss
26
isrss
27
minflt
28
majflt
29
nswap
30
inblocks
31
outblocks
32
msgsnd
33
msgrcv
34
nsignals
35
nvcsw
36
nivcsw
37
vsize
 

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

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Lawrence Livermore National Security. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER). CODE-OCEC-09-009. All rights reserved.
This file is part of SLURM, a resource management program. For details, see <http://www.schedmd.com/slurmdocs/>.
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)
March 2010 sacct 2.2