[slurm-users] sprio/sacct priority question

[Marcin Stolarek]

As far as I remember sprio does the calculation on its own when executed
and priority in job structure stored by slurmctl is updated periodically...
maybe this is the answer ?

cheers,
Marcin

śr., 17 paź 2018 o 00:42 Glen MacLachlan <bindatype at gmail.com> napisał(a):

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using slurm 17.02.8 and when I query pending jobs with sprio or sacct
> I get different results for the slurm priority. Can someone explain to me
> why the difference or at least point me to the document where this is
> discussed because I must have missed it.
>
> sprio example:
>
> $ sprio -j 3402583,3425789,3438823
>           JOBID   PRIORITY        AGE  FAIRSHARE    JOBSIZE  PARTITION
>         3402583     682609      10000     622540         70      50000
>         3425789     100320      10000      40250         70      50000
>         3438823     682609      10000     622540         70      50000
>
>
> sacct example:
>
> $ sacct -j3402583,3425789,3438823 -X --format JOBID,STATE,PRIORITY
>        JobID      State   Priority
> ------------ ---------- ----------
> 3402583         PENDING     386956
> 3425789         PENDING     648990
> 3438823         PENDING     671665
>
> Any idea why these priority numbers come out so differently? Is the sacct
> priority a raw figure whereas sprio has been convolved with fairshare
> factors?
>
> Thanks, Glen
>
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