<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>What about scontrol show job <jobID> to see various things like:</div><div><br></div><div>SubmitTime, EligibleTime, AccrueTime etc?</div><div><br></div><div>David<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 4:53 AM Kevin Buckley <<a href="mailto:Kevin.Buckley@pawsey.org.au">Kevin.Buckley@pawsey.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi there,<br>
<br>
we're hoping to overcome an issue where some of our users are keen<br>
on writing their own meta-schedulers, so as to try and beat the<br>
actual scheduler, but can't seemingly do as good a job as a scheduler<br>
that's been developed by people who understand scheduling (no real<br>
surprises there!), and so occasionally generate false perceptions of<br>
our systems.<br>
<br>
One of the things our meta-scheduler writers seem unable to allow for,<br>
is jobs that remain in a "completing" state, for whatever reason.<br>
<br>
Whilst we're not looking to provide succour to meta-scheduler writers,<br>
we can see a need for some way to present and/or make use of, a<br>
<br>
"job has been in state S for time T"<br>
<br>
or<br>
<br>
"job entered current state at time T"<br>
<br>
info.<br>
<br>
<br>
Can we access such a value from Slurm: rather, does Slurm keep track<br>
of such a value, whether or not it can currently be accessed on the<br>
"user-side" ?<br>
<br>
<br>
What we're trying to avoid is the need to write a not-quite-Slurm<br>
database that stores such info by continually polling our actual<br>
Slurm database, because we don't think of ourselves as meta-scheduler<br>
writers.<br>
<br>
Here's hoping,<br>
Kevin<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Supercomputing Systems Administrator<br>
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">David Rhey<br>---------------</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Michigan</span></div></div></div></div></div>