sstat(1) Slurm Commands sstat(1) NAME sstat - Display the status information of a running job/step. SYNOPSIS sstat [OPTIONS...] DESCRIPTION Status information for running jobs invoked with Slurm. The sstat command displays job status information for your analysis. The sstat command displays information pertaining to CPU, Task, Node, Resident Set Size (RSS) and Virtual Memory (VM). You can tailor the output with the use of the --fields= option to specify the fields to be shown. For the root user, the sstat command displays job status data for any job running on the system. For the non-root user, the sstat output is limited to the user's jobs. NOTE: The sstat command requires that the jobacct_gather plugin be installed and operational. OPTIONS -a, --allsteps Print all steps for the given job(s) when no step is specified. -o, --format, --fields 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. i.e. format=name%30 will print 30 characters of field name right justified. A -30 will print 30 characters left justified. -h, --help Displays a general help message. -e, --helpformat Print a list of fields that can be specified with the '--format' option. -j, --jobs Format is . Stat this job step or comma-separated list of job steps. This option is required. The step portion will default to the lowest numbered (not batch, extern, etc) step running if not specified, unless the --allsteps flag is set where not specifying a step will result in all running steps to be displayed. NOTE: A step id of 'batch' will display the information about the batch step. NOTE: A step id of 'extern' will display the information about the extern step. This step is only available when using PrologFlags=contain --noconvert Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to 2G). -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 -P, --parsable2 output will be '|' delimited without a '|' at the end -i, --pidformat Predefined format to list the pids running for each job step. (JobId,Nodes,Pids) --usage Display a command usage summary. -v, --verbose Primarily for debugging purposes, report the state of various variables during processing. -V, --version Print version. Job Status Fields Descriptions of each field option 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. 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. ConsumedEnergy Total energy consumed by all tasks in job, in joules. Note: Only in case of exclusive job allocation this value reflects the jobs' real energy consumption. JobID The number of the job or job step. It is in the form: job.jobstep 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 maxvsize occurred. MaxVMSizeTask The task ID where the maxvsize 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. NTasks Total number of tasks in a job or step. ReqCPUFreq Requested CPU frequency for the step, in kHz. 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. 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. PERFORMANCE Executing sstat sends a remote procedure call to slurmctld. If enough calls from sstat or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmctld daemon come in at once, it can result in a degradation of performance of the slurmctld daemon, possibly resulting in a denial of service. Do not run sstat or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to slurmctld from loops in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls to sstat to the minimum necessary for the information you are trying to gather. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES Some sstat 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.) SLURM_CONF The location of the Slurm configuration file. SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS Specify debug flags for sstat 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. EXAMPLES Display job step information for job 11 with the specified fields: $ sstat --format=AveCPU,AvePages,AveRSS,AveVMSize,JobID -j 11 25:02.000 0K 1.37M 5.93M 9.0 Display job step information for job 11 with the specified fields in a parsable format: $ sstat -p --format=AveCPU,AvePages,AveRSS,AveVMSize,JobID -j 11 25:02.000|0K|1.37M|5.93M|9.0| COPYING Copyright (C) 2009 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 . 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. SEE ALSO sacct(1) January 2024 Slurm Commands sstat(1)