Hi Jason,

do or did you maybe have a reservation for user root in place?

sreport accounts resources reserved for a user as well (even if not
used by jobs) while sacct reports job accounting only.

Best regards
Jürgen


* Jason Simms via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> [240429 10:47]:
> Hello all,
>
> Each week, I generate an automated report of the top users by CPU hours.
> This week, for whatever reason the user root accounted for a massive number
> of hours:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Login           Proper Name               Used                       Account
> --------------- -------------------- --------- ---------
> root            root                     28224                          root
>
> I've tried to generate a report on what might account for this, but so
> far I'm stumped. For example, when I run a typical report:
>
> sacct -o jobid,jobname,start,end,NNodes,NCPUS,ReqMem,CPUTime,AveRSS,MaxRSS
> -S 2024-04-22 -E 2024-04-29 --user=root --units=G
>
> Nothing comes up (same if I change --user=root to --account=root).
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts as to how to investigate or understand
> this. It may well be that I'm missing something fundamental.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Jason
>
>
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